(When using "you", I'm being general, not specifically *you*, eyn)

You buy an N900 when you want to be challenged, when you don't complain about small missing features, when you want to help build, test and complete an amazing device.

People don't charge money for apps on the N900, which means they will never make a living out of it (for 98% of the developers out there). Yes, Nokia helps a lot by developing the base applications, but that's just what they are, base apps. There are a lot of things we can improve upon, and one of those things is motivating developers into making their applications 100% complete, 100% usable and 100% polished. I really do believe (and this dates back quite a bit) that a lot of developers use the excuse "It's Open Source, so as long as it works for me, sod it", but sadly it really hurts the platform.

At some point, I really liked Canola, because it was extremely polished, it showed a few very interesting concepts in terms of user experience, and it worked very nicely (although being slow, talking about early versions). I think this really sums up most of the issues people are having.

The iPhone set a standard where people just download something, pay a buck or two, and can use the applications fully. Even the free apps are pretty well finished, because if they're not, they don't get through the App Store. This doesn't happen in Maemo, people get access to applications which aren't finished. Yes, they work for people who share the same mindset as the developer, or who are happy to use just a couple of features that are already developed, but overall, someone who's just downloading it for fun will be lost.

What I'm trying to say, is that you get an N900 when you don't have the expectations of an iPhone user. You get an N900 when what you want is a device which will allow you to do a lot of stuff, absolutely amazing things, but you know how to be constructive in your reactions and your feedback -- in other words, you are helpful, and understanding that the people who write the stuff aren't at your service. This is a platform that allows sharing, I have more friends in this Community than anywhere else online (you guys are my only friends!), and given a bit of patience, we will have a feature set to be proud of and amazed by -- if you aren't already.

By the way, this post completely deserves to be in Community.