Remember all of those infinite threads asking when the next firmware update would be out, and Nokia's oceanic silence in response? Remember all the bitter complaints, which became kind of a permanent insurgency on this site?

I think that if the following could only have been instituted a year ago, many of the N900 bad vibes might never have happened, which might have changed everything.

The in-development Maemo 5 Community SSU

Check the enthusiasm in those threads! This is what many of the nabobs of negativism (Thanks, Spiro) really wanted, whether they knew it or not.