Coming from the majority of Maemo devices side of things (my N800), I think the N900 had a LOT of potential but it's not at all what I was looking for and ended up ruining my Maemo 4 experience with the plethora of "WONTFIXES" and "FIXED IN FREMANTLE", plus it even had enough deficiencies (in my opinion) to dissuade me from purchasing it. I'm still waiting to see what Maemo/MeeGo does next but I'm feeling very cynical considering Nokia's history--and I'm probably more interested to see what someone other than Nokia does. I like to also incorporate thinking outside the box itself and I find that customer communications, support, repairs, parts, etc. are all of extremely poor quality. It's incredibly heartbreaking to see something touted as an open-source tablet platform get cheapened and ruined by a single vendor that has a tight hold over the whole process while still claiming to be open. I'm glad to that MeeGo exists to fix that issue--but I can't help the nagging sense that Nokia has been spending all this time lately finding ways to hobble the N900 (and any new device's) firmware image with proprietary open-core software and architecture (as if drivers weren't bad enough alone) the way they did with the 770, the N800, the N810, the N810 WiMax Edition and the N900.

Anyway, all that aside... Well said. I'm not sure that we're in any kind of disagreement, even though I personally and generally dislike the decisions made in designing and creating the N900.