There's no doubt that USB is a terribly bad specification. It looks worse the more I look at it. Igor Stoppa suggested we should start complaining to the USB consortium, and I can only agree. If USB had just been based on Firewire..

Still, it's a pity for those that hoped the N900 could still be considered a pocketable computer. So, with the N8x0 you had to bring a phone along on your mission but you could leave your laptop at home, with the N900 you can leave the phone at home but you'll have to bring the laptop.. there's no way to win

(I'm of course completely relaxed, as I'm betting on the dark horse mentioned in a post above )