It amazes me that this community is agreeing that the n900 is not good for the mass market.

Compare it to the best of android or OSx devices ignoring the application markets. It is at least as good, imo better.

If what makes the device a mass market device is 1000 apps then sure, it is going to take 6-12 months to get there, just like it did for the nokia 5800 or n97, the first s60^5 devices.

Nokia has not tried to compare the n900 to android or i-phone because as Volt said "The N900 is one of the few phones that doesn't try to be the Iphone." It is a new platform that has the potential to be as revolutionary as android or osx or symbian s60

Yesterday Computerworld published a report about mobile phone os ( http://shar.es/1YiLD ) where it talked about the market make up in 2012.

Symbian = 36 %
Android = 14 %
OSX = 13.7 %
WinMo=12.8 %
Various Linux maemo is bunched in here = 5.4% or 28M units

28 Million is not 200million but, It shows there is a real market out there that developers and software companies should pay attention to!! Millions of potential customers to but their wares.

Lets focus positive energy to the market and give them the examples they need to understand why it is special, different, and better in its own way.