Nuuskis, I couldn't agree with you more, you hit the spot!
Especially I can agree that most apps for Android and iOS are just a pile of worthless crap with ads or pricetags sticked to them, they indeed ARE. On android I have not yet seen a good alternative to a terminal with ssh and scp support and believe me I have checked them all. Even if it existed a good terminal I wouldn't have any support for python or perl where I can whenever I want do some small script for a specific task.
You can with minor effort port a linux application directly to maemo, and it just work. Can't see the like of that anywhere.
The n900 is in fact a portable COMPUTER with a phone feature.
The rest of the market are just dumb "smart phones", whatever they are supposed to be, I don't know. People are carrying around dumbed down phones with colorful iconsets.