Edgedemon, I fully agree what you say.

When N900 was available to buy (just before Xmas 2009 here), it had functionality (on paper) that I was looking for:
- keyboard
- decent size display
- open, SSH applications for mobile, secure connections to office servers etc
- email with sync capabilities (not exchange in this case)
- Maps, I've used Maps on other Nokia phones (no voice guidance, for me not a big deal)
- good web browser
- web radio
- phone (not the best UI and contacts, but good enough)
- more 3. party apps in the future

so basically..dream machine.

All previews/reviews were praising Maemo OS and NONE of the marketing/ad was saying that N900 is not for ordinary user and will be shortly discontiued (one must be quite genious to figure that out from sentence "step 4 of 5", evolution doen not mean abandoning..).

So, roughly 6+ months later, who's gonna fix issues that you cannot "research" w/o having the gears first:

-most of settings in media viewer cannot be saved (re-select "show camera folder only" every time), cannot save defaults
- MicroB settings same thing, eg. reflow page as default, press Ctrl-Shift-I every time after launching it. No way to save this.
- Modest email is quite "modest", but a upgrade would be welcome
- web radio, no station list..
- Maemo Maps, king of crappy apps, Nokia should rename it so people wouldn't confuse it to Maps on other Nokia devices (no automatic re-route if you miss the route, no own POI's, search requires web connection, UI is horrifying etc...)

All this could be bearable if one would know that those issues (among others) would get fixed. But they won't. And community cannot do it either because those apps are Nokia's closed stuff.

In spite of all above, I'll continue using N900. But Nokia let us down with this..badly. What they did once now, they can do it again and guess who pays the show, we do.

Hopefully the community carries N900 on, I've a bunch of nice apps. Thanks to all developers.