N900 has a lot of potential to grow as a great device. Nokia needs to interact with developers and show them incentives like Apple does. People dont mind paying as long as its worth paying money for. There are a few members here who have thanklessly worked extremely hard to fill in the gaps in n900. Able to modify, overclock, tweak it to the point its exactly how you wanted your device to be; makes it a brilliant choice.

Few areas where novice programmers (or closed source) cant further improvements, nokia needs to step in. Improving email + maps apps, business end of it needs to be more of an E series than N series.

Developers like me want to dive in, but there has to be a clearer platform + future goals from Nokia. Scandanavian approach of staying quite and lack of communication is a huge negative that only Nokia can remedy. Another negative is the use of language that only a few know where Apple uses a language taught to computer engineers everywhere.