Jeeeeez!!! Am I bored with these threads. A new one pops up every day on the Nokia boards. And they seem to be by peeps who actually lack the aptitude to use such a device, but prefer to slate the device and Nokia rather than admit to their failings to understand the device.

I spent months popping in and out of various phone retailers to get their feedback on the handset before I took the plunge. (And I heard some real outlandish things from different sales people).

A whole month before I bought the device, I discovered this site. I found out that it didn't do MMS or send files over Bluetooth straight out of the box, so I searched a bit more and found fMMS and Petrovich along with a whole raft of other little apps that plugged the holes that Nokia left.
Needless to say, I love the N900. It's been a learning curve from the old bug ridden S60 V3 N95-8GB that I used to have (I still have it actually) and yes, I do miss some of the little toys from the S60 stable, i.e Photobrowser etc.

But to tell the truth, the biggest gripe I have about my N900 is that it's a Vodafone handset with a firmware lock. i.e We're not allowed to update the firmware until Vodafone say we can, and they're 2 versions behind.
Unless of course you take the time to learn about Maemo Flasher.

And as far as the Apple App Store goes. It may have 100,000 apps, but when you sort them all into categories i.e Sudoku apps, image viewers, buttons that make rude noises, face warp apps etc.......... You'll soon find that the real count is something like 10,000 apps that do the same thing.