Heh,
I actually had a rather LOUD (though friendly) argument at work with one of my bosses about that very fact. I always compare the iPhone and say that it's the My first sony of smartphones. everything comes sort of 'preset' for you and you have to use everything within the constraints of the evil, evil apple. The guy from work said that I'll have nothing to do with the N900 because it has no apps... And I would be rather limited with it because I won't be able to use my bank's iphone app to access my account balance information and such. My claim was that I won't be needing those apps because the N900 has a fully capable browser. Btw, I've managed to access my account balance through my bank's website using microb flawlessly. I was amazed because Israeli web designers are not such big fans of the WC3 standards and almost all of the major websites in Israel are rendered rather horribly on anything other than IE. Even Israel's most popular news site, ynet.co.il was rendered perfectly on microb, on the iPhone I had to scroll with two fingers because the sites uses weird iframes.