You know what will happen next? The typical crowd will come in, dissect his verbiage, overlooking any points by simply stating this one thing: "The Nokia N900 wasn't meant to be a mass marketed device."

Therefore, once you bought the N900, you entered into the ever exclusive halls of Maemo geekdom and you were to believe that marketing hype no longer applies. It's not a phone, it's a mobile computer. It's step 4 out of a step 5 process. Ovi Store is not necessary, all the better applications are in the repository. And ultimately, it would invariably get dropped by Nokia; the forums are the only support you will ever need.

That seems to be the quasi-mantra of some around these parts.