Many of us would completely agree with you, only in different wording.

You are absolutely right, this is not the phone for an average consumer. If you wanted easy to use, you should have gotten an iPhone.

The n900 is unique in that you can do things like overclocking it on the fly, or attaching it to a rolodex, but it still crashes, it still doesn't have good OVI support, and it still doesn't have a lot of things that most modern smartphones have.

Who is the n900 for? The n900 is for people who see that something is a little sluggish, so their first reaction isn't rebooting, it's opening up a terminal and seeing what processes are taking up the memory, or what's eating their rootfs, or finding what's peaking the CPU. The n900 is for people who find some form of joy in setting up a webserver on their phone. The n900 is for people who run more beta software than final releases, and the n900 is for people who love freedom.

The flasher works fine on an XP computer. Try running in compatibility mode, or borrow a friend's computer. If that's too difficult for you, the apple store is -> that way. Thank you and have a nice day.