@spycedtx,

I think you may have misunderstood my "common man" analogy. Do not get me wrong, I love my N800. I take it everywhere and for the most part I have all the wifi spots in downtown Helsinki mapped out so I know where I can get online if I do not want to use 3G. So, in a word, YES, I want the N800 to succeed, and to do so convincingly. As I also pointed out, I am relatively new to this environment, but you hit upon something that I did not know. You mentioned that Nokia just dropped this on the community without any or very little warning. Fair enough. However can I say this in all fairness, if the N800 was not here and the N770 was still the hot ticket, I would not see much difference in what is being offered. I have looked at the Wiki's and from this and the other places I have visited, I came to this conclusion. I am also sure that new apps will follow. My biggest gripe with all of this is simply the way things are run. Me as a non-programmer could post a piece of crap out there and no one would be the wiser. I think that someone should take charge of Maemo and enforce stricter control over what is being posted. If it works, it stays. If not, it goes. Why have a repository for junk when as you said, there are some good things out there?

So I hope that I have made myself a bit more clear in that I am all in favor of the N800, and the OS community, but things should be a bit more regulated and not a free for all.