Well, as a bright spot, at least Ovi isn't the only source of applications for the N900, unlike certain other phones.

But I'm amazed that, even with all of the delays, that Nokia has managed to shoot themselves in the foot multiple times on this. Then again, working in the software engineering field, I shouldn't be. The people who usually know what the best way of doing things are often not the ones who have the power to do anything about it.

Ovi store isn't the only source of applications for any phone.

I suppose that meant iAppstore....

If you Don't know what the Word beta means dont use the service.

Ovi Store is beta, Ovi Suite doesn't even support N900 on 2.1 beta version, Ovi Maps lacks navigation, etc...

Nokia should have named our phone "N900 BETA"!! ;-)

Not that wouldn't use it anyway, but at least I would have waited a bit for the price gets lower instead of pre-ordering.

Feels like buying a Ferrari and the road to accelerate to its limit is still being pavimented. If at least N900 would attract the same attention from the ladies....

Um...
The OVI Store page hasn't had the word "beta" on it for awhile dude.

http://store.ovi.com/

Maybe that is why some of us are posting about this now and not then.

Also:
When it did say beta on the OVI site no where did it ever say that the beta Service was providing beta quality software. In fact, the Nokia Select site says that some of the "best" software for the N900 can be found in the OVI store.

The OVI service that Nokia provides now and in the future is not the point... The point is QA.

One would hope that a corporation that profits from its sale would at least have the same standards of QA for the software it promotes for the dang thing that a non-profit users group like maemo.org has.

Right now an independent developer could deduce that it would be easier to get his program promoted in OVI then it would be in maemo.org "extras"... or worse, just pay the fee to be a "Nokia Partner" or some such and skip QA altogether.

What ovi store are you guys talking about ? Since a couple of weeks the ovi store app link on 51.1 sends me to a static page telling me i need to upgrade maemo5 and store.ovi.com tells me my device isn't supported.

You need to install the Maemo firmware update first, then you'll get past that splash page

go to ovi store via your n900 it clearly says BETA.
its not the software on there whats the problem its the QA process of the maemo beta store

That wasn't it, hide user agent went back to default (hide) and that was confusing ovi store.