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Originally Posted by rm42 View Post
I am sorry my comment sounded condescending to you. I was being dead serious. Maybe I misunderstood what you meant. It is just that to me, the greatest feature of the N900 is the development freedom that it offers. It has revived in me the desire to do desktop (as opposed to web) development. And I know that I will be joined by dozens of computer geeks in creating code for this device. I am also very interested in being able to view and edit my word processor documents and my spreadsheets anywhere and at any time. I want access to sqlite to make some small database applications to organize some info that I want to have with me at all times. That is why I am buying this device. I would buy it even if it did not have a phone. And I don't care what features Motorola, Apple, HTC, etc put on their device. As long as they don't allow me to create a quick Phython app while I am on the subway, or allow my fellow geeks to do as they please with the OS and create and distribute whatever app they want, I am just plain not interested. *That* is what makes the N900 special, not the other specs. All the other specs can and will be outdone by other devices in no time. But, the that geek freedom feature is going to be hard to beat. If those other features are what you are after, I'd say look elsewhere. Seriously.

The n900 may be good for geeks, but Nokia have to create a product and be able to market it to mainstream.

At the end of the day, Nokia needs to make $$$. There are not enough hardcore LINUX/developer geeks that Nokia can profit much (especially with the competiton droid,HD2,iphone). This is not good for Maemo as Nokia would eventually pull the plug and try something more mainstream to sell.

Nokia did not create the n900 out of the goodness of their hearts just for geeks. They need to sell more so the platform can take off and eventually profit.