It's a $5 app that most people will find easier to use then mencoder.

I'm all for the power of Linux, but seriously. For the "average consumer" the iPhone 4 looks pretty decent. Even after you de-Steveafy it and remove the hyping over features that really aren't amazing, a lot of people will find it to be able to do what they want, need, and even don't need with ease.

Here's something it can do. It can run for 10 hours on wifi. The n900 can't quite match that battery life.

What I'd like to see from the Nokia side is a platform that spans the usability space from "yep, my mom could use that" to "yep, I could maintain my LAMP servers with that." I'm not SURE that span is possible, but I'd love to be wrong. Apple owns the "my mom can use it" side, and it turns out there are a lot of people who are in that camp.