the n800, to its credit, hasn't even been on the market for a full quarter. Those of us with 770s have been playing and working with them for a year or so now. the n800 was suddenly popped on us w/o (much or decent) warning.

It does what it does. The fact that there _are_ developers out there working on new apps, and bringing theirs over from the 770 is a testament to the device and platform. No, it's not a Palm or Zaurus or whatever. But, it was never claimed to be. It's an internet tablet. It gets you on the internet. Everything else is fluff.

As someone else mentioned, relatively speaking, maemo is a new platform. You weren't around a year ago when we would bang on the reload key, looking at the application catalog, waiting for the newest application to suddenly show up. Now, it's a long laundry list of anything from networking tools to games. You kids today have no idea how good you have it.

Someone made a comment about not being able to figure out how to use MaemoMapper due to lack of "decent documentation". From day one, that application has been nothing but intuitive. And, it's had a plethora of "documentation" in the form of the forum discussions for any sticky issues (like the exact format of google urls to use).

so, give the 800 a break. It IS new. And, as far as your stance regarding "the common person", I don't think "the common person" is going to go out and drop $400 on an item when they really have no clue what it is. I gave my spare 770 to a friend who is somewhat technical -- she's not a programmer, doesn't know how to work her way through a unix prompt/CLI environment. But, she can put 2+2 together and is really great and pointing and clicking. Within a week, she was up and running full speed, and is in love with it (I'm afraid I may not get it back). So, who is "the common person" ?

I've seen you make several comments already in other threads about "the common person", and how the 800 isn't going to take off. Take some of that energy and go through the tons of wiki pages on maemo.org, read through back posts here.. There is a LOT of good material to digest. Just like with any other new device, you have to put some energy into learning what it is and how to work it. And there are no shortage of materials from which to learn. With anything new, you have to learn. You learned how to operate Windows, your Mac, install satellites, balance a bank account for a household... What kind of miracles are you expecting in 2 months??