What's wrong with having more options, or more elegant ways of doing stuff?

Of course most of us will have a laptop at hand and won't see a missing usb connectivity with the n900 as a problem - but it would have been a great bonus.

Connecting stuff through a chain of adapters, some of them soldered on your own? Been there, done that - with my 770. Which cost me 300+ Euros in january 2006.

Having to explain: No, can't do that directly, i'll have to tether it to my phone first? Been there, done that.

That was ok. The former NITs are more toys than serious business devices. But they had a fair price that still left you with some money to buy and add the stuff the devices were missing.

The n900 is NOT a toy for me. It is a darn expensive thing and I will have to abstain on many nice things in the next months in order to be able to pay for it.

It gets so many things right. It should be able to get a simple USB plug right, too. That stuff has been around for years.

Of course my life doesn't depend on that plug. But it's a letdown nonetheless!