C'mon... be consistent. Earlier you said:

Which is it? And before you go into a semantic laden battle of I said this, but not this... condemning one is condemning the other. If you hate the jelly, you also throw away the jar. And besides, it doesn't bother me. I'm having fun with you anyway.

So no worries. Just stick to your guns. As far as the 12:

Where - locates QUICKLY cheapest gas, local weather, coffee shops, location aware app
Twitterriffic - Witter, Mauku are both lacking user experience/UI
Tilt Shift Gen - basically an image editor, would be great matched up with a quality 5mp camera (take the hint Nokia)
Snapture - just goes to show that Apple doesn't do it all well, Snapture is what the Photo app should have been
Pocket Google Analytics - screw logging in each time via browser, supports multiple accounts, one finger can drive this app
Epicurious - I cook, love new ideas, quickly like the access
Bento - I like being organized, with full access to my contacts, copy/paste and scheduling
textPlus - Free text messaging, also on Android; not on Maemo
AS3 Reference - I'm a Flash/Flex dev and the website for Adobe docs is sloooow sometimes, this helps me avoid that
Bing - Hate on Microsoft all you want, their search app is what great UX/UI is all about - and it works darn well
CNN - Video, local news, world news, easier to navigate than their site (which needs fixing in a few places)
Touchgrind - multiple touch skateboarding app - can't be done (2 feet on skateboard, 2 fingers used in game) on the N900
Air Sharing - Screw slow bluetooth sharing, screw having to carry around a cable... wifi transfer of files, self-hosted WebDAV solution that's easy to use - surprised nobody has recreated this one on the N900

That's my 12. The rest, not important. Not one fart app has ever landed onto my iPhone - I can go to Taco Bell for that.

Most can be duplicated via websites, but having multiple logins for Gmail, Google Analytics, Google Voice, et al means that I'm typing in login information a lot. That slows down how fast I can get out of my browser - which is a better browser than Mobile Safari. The apps emulate what you do in a browser on the iPhone because honestly... the browse plain sucks. Not a problem on the N900, but sometimes you just want to see something, close out. Not browse the web.

Some are location aware apps are nigh-instant on their lock. My time with the N900... especially one that's been locked onto some 150 miles away, the lock was slower than just a quick "pop-in, pop-off" type of usage. If I were driving, looking for the cheapest gas and it takes 2 minutes to lock, at 60mph, that's 2 miles and in some cases, 2 or more exits on the highway before I can START to make up my mind. My latter locks on the N900 were under a minute. I can lock my location on my iPhone usually in 15 seconds. I'm sure that will improve on the N900 in due time.

I mentioned one multi-touch game - why? Because the N900 can't emulate real-life situations where two fingers would correspond to what you'd do in real life. Touch screen is fine and dandy everywhere else as single-touch, but not when you might require it - say... emulating two legs. It's not a compelling reason for multi-touch, but it does show that it has it (albeit limited) uses.

Air Sharing - seriously. I cannot believe that one doesn't exist yet.

Oh well... back to emulation </thread hijack>