The device is like a browser, it is called an INTERNETTABLET.
As a Mac lover it also downloads quicktime movies from the Apple site.
you acces anything on the net, including AJAX enabled sites - flash or Gmail.
It is not trying to connect to your PC or Mac based desktop software only the harddisk data, it is the wrong fight to access software from different vendors - it is history and so is Palm or Blackberry.
Try to connect to webbased apps go here: http://del.icio.us/tag/web2.0
Nokia was smart enough not to sit with Big Bill on the table.
This is something else...
This the next revolution. It has a effect on (desktop) software companies and mobile phone operators.
It is like a Tsunami of last year, they didn't see it coming.
The result will be soon all kinds of sizes of tablets and after all the old dream of Oracle will come true.... but in an other way.
Devices that can do nothing by themselves and are cheap but they need the internet !

I am not surprised about the Fins, I know them , I studied there in the 80's(design) They don't care about changing the fonts or colours for pleasure, Alvar Aalto, there great hero, statement was "form follows function".

I think this tablet of 300 euro without VAT is all about this !