I'm not arguing at all with what and how Nokia has marketed the device. I don't really care. In fact, I didn't even know about this device except through this forum. I've never seen a t.v. ad for it, I've never heard anyone talk about it, I've never seen a webpage ad for it. Ever.

The only reason I knew about this device was because there was a new forum on maemo.org called "N900" and I thought, "oh sweet, they're coming out with a new device."
Then I discovered it was also a phone and knew it was going to finally have what I've always needed.

I could personally care less about what the sheep use or don't like about it. A guy comes up and shows me some cool app on his phone that makes a sheep jump higher and higher as you tap it.

I shrug and show him the perl code I'm about to execute on my phone which will go out and retrieve all the sectors from astroempires.com.

Different types of people. Cute little phone games and what outfit Sally dressed her chihuahua up in don't concern me, and I don't care about facebooking it.

The fact that I can be out camping in my Jeep, fishing by a campfire, and still be able to connect to work and control the point of sale system for over 800 stores, is what I care about.

"What, you want to work all the time?!"

No, my point is that BECAUSE of this phone, I can now DO the stuff I want to do without fear that I may be called in the middle of nowhere and have to drive back to town for some hotspot to work.

Yes, I'm that important at my company.. unfortunately. But because of this phone, my freedom to truly go anywhere has exploded.