No.

Devs already have the option to add ASR if they so see fit. To have an app either portrait or in landscape is bad coding and forces the user to rotate the device. This is forcing to use an app in a certain way. You see where I'm going...? So now you don't have a problem with in what way the phone is oriented... and you're forced to use it in landscape.

But that is just one (useless on the N900) app. The dev hadn't had enough time to implement the ASR function yet on the N97, prolly because of a second interface implementation. If he had chosen the portait mode, the video would have been uselessly small... But he could have done that too, and drop support for landscape orientation.

This is getting pointless. Unless you learn how to do ASR on the N900 yourself, let the community do it in due time. What you're doing, is spreading bad vibes. EVERYONE knows that Chris would like to have ASR on the N900.