I fimd hilarious how Eldar says that the problem with the N900 is that Nokia showed it to the world, when Nokia has been downplaying it the whole time, and while his first preview was the one that started the online buzz. Heh.

Anyway, into more productive points, so far, everything I see shows that Nokia, having developed the device, are aware of its strong and weak points, and have managed it accordingly. [irony ]Shocking, I understand, but Nokia might know what they are doing![/irony ]

Maemo is more than the N900? Check: "step 4 of 5", Qt for Harmattan, etc

Could and will Maemo 5 be better? Check: Brainstorm, OTA capabilities, and statements about work being done to add more features. I don't understand why people act like the software will never be upgraded.

Is Maemo 5 a transitional step? Check: it is meant to, among other things, pave the way for the "step 5". A lot of things are not ready for mass consumers, including ourselves. But we are willing (or should be willing) to move forward and improve as quickly as possible.

One last thing. People at times do not seem to be aware of the constraints inherent to development (time being one of those). If the N900 is not a perfect device, it is not because Nokia decided to be evil and piss you off. It was because time was short (it always is) and not everything could be done. Deadlines have to be met, and the N900 is as perfect as was possible in such circunstances.

And its sucessors will be better.