And that's not a problem in itself? I mean... the N900 has been coming for a long time and they cannot sort out OVI yet?

Perhaps I'm the daft one here; however that makes zero damn sense to release a phone in this day and age and basically shut out folks by not showing either incentive(s) and/or ability to facilitate companies, individuals while leveraging the community. Releasing a phone without a store, et al was okay perhaps 2-3 years ago. Not now.

There has to be a better way. This isn't cutting it - not at this moment. And then to have people issue out remarks because the person is using an Apple Mac to develop in Ubuntu via VirtualBox and question his ability!? What kind of message does that send as well?

Accountability. It's lacking.