ORLY? As soon as I light the screen, friendly widgets look back at me and I can tickle them and they squirm and spray pixels at me. Of course there are applications for the N900. This teenage style statement about there being NO applications is the worst about the technical attention deficit disorder so many seem to be suffering from. Hang on now. You just said there are NO applications and now there are plenty? It's just that you don't like what they do or how they look. Do I agree on many applications not looking the best? Sure. But they are there, you can use them, they do function. If your main complaint is "There are NO pretty applications that I like for the n900!", I'd suggest that you say just that. Bigger community with, in my view, better tools to develop things. And it's backed by Google which in itself guarantees the attention from big companies wanting to be seen on da Intertubes. Not pretty enough... ok. Define "proper development", please. If you want to help with getting applications into the public repositories, I suggest that you sign up as a tester. Mix your Python coding with testing the applications that would very well be ok to move to Testing. That way you can contribute even though you're not ready to write your own applications.