* to be without a mobile phone after unforeseeable battery drains of the N900 in the middle of the day

Just keep a couple of pre charged batteries in your pocket, problem solved.

* to wait for necessary prio 0 bug fixes for months

But for me the fact that the n900 is not yet all that it promises makes it more exciting, bit like growing up really.

* to do all the necessary micro-tweaking of the device

Obviously you are a nerd, geeks love tweaking stuff and derive a great deal of pleasure from doing it.

* to wait for the Ovi Store to contain meaningful apps for the N900

Don't make me laugh, you seem to have little insight as to why open source is a much more profound philosophy than closed source, how sad that you fail to understand how alchemy turned into chemistry.


* to be a guinea pig for Nokia's market research

Of all your comments this is the most ludicrous of all, perhaps you have forgotten that Nokia is the biggest mobile phone manufacturer in the world.

* to wait for Nokia to come up with any kind of statement of direction / roadmap for the N900 /

Hopefully Nokia can make inroads as to teaching us bumbling bipeds, what difference open source can make to the human condition, and believe me it has got a lot more to do with the way human society works than just IT.

Maemo / MeeGo
* to wait for Nokia to come up with a plan how to re-invent itself after it's n+1st business reorganization

That is your only comment that I resonate with, I also fail to see why the market droids want to engineer a fork between Maemo, Meego and Debian, unless its the sad proclivity, for market droids to teach the controversy and thus divide and rule.

* to be without a mobile phone after unforseeable battery drains of the N900 in the middle of the day

see above.

* tbc ...

pass.