I own both an iPod 3rdGen (Close to iPhone 3GS) and N900. I'm using both at exactly the same time. so no accusations of fanboyism.

Email, Application Diversity, Games, hell even office applications are superior on the iPod (the music player). iTunes is superior as a syncing application. although quite heavy and laggy. I can just flash and click (Sync). and everything is back exactly as it was. without having to worry about repos or re-downloading apps.

Multi-tasking, flexibility, quite a unique set of apps and the potential to do so much more lies with the N900

MiroB is mostly a better browser, but there are some websites that Safari opens better. You want examples. I can give you.

There are some arguments I'd like to reply to:

1. iPhone = 2007. ok. Maemo = 2005. but you can't port apps? The wheel has to be re-invented every year? How is that a positive argument for Maemo? if anything, it's indication of Platform "mismanagement"?

2. N900 out only since 2010. Sure. in consumer hands. but what does that have to do with anything? Measure demand, right? but where is the propaganda showing N900 great sales so far? What happened to those 300 Mobiles out in developer hands since September?

So far, I've seen only the one poster. In a nokia shop near by. nothing else. When the n97 came out. Posters were all over malls from months before. There were ads on TV and Cinema.

Defending Nokia = Unfair. Clearly and Obviously, even from their conference, their attention is all on Symbian. Maemo is a pet project, that they now share with Intel cause they didnt know what to do with it alone.

Defending Maemo Community = Yes. It's still alive because of them. Not Nokia.