Commodore didn't die from external forces, it was killed by the mismanagement and greed of upper management.

You may want to watch Dave Haynie's two-hour video on the last days of Commodore, The Deathbed Vigil (free, full version online at Google Video). The film sums up the steps leading to the demise of the company very well. It is both funny (the anecdotes), sad (the surreal atmosphere of the smashing up of keyboards at night and the burning of the Mehdi Ali doll), as well as informative.

The submitter's claims that the Amiga didn't become a blockbuster and that Commodore would have died as a consequence are just plain wrong, though. Perhaps it was less successful in the U.S. than in Europe (I obviously remember it from the European perspective). There was even Amiga UNIX (System V Release 4) and it was great, beating every other UNIX vendor to the market. Sun Microsystems hoped to sell it as their low-end platform, but as usual, Commodore management killed the deal. See the film linked above for some more details on this and other projects that were engineering successes, but destroyed by the clueless upper management. It's no coincidence the speed bumps in the Commodore parking lot were painted with their names at night, in secret.

C= Failure n. See: Greed
—Dave Haynie

Overall I like it - it's obvious that a lot of good thinking has been going on. That much said, there are a few things to look at:

• No scrollbars on pages. This must be fixed! Microb does it right by fading them in and out of visibility, so that no screen real estate is lost.
• The setting to preload it should be an option in preferences, enabled by default (you can do this manually, search the comments here for "preload" for instructions). Perhaps also add way to remove the preload setting for Microb and to make Firefox the default browser. (There's an add-on for making Firefox the default).
• Slashdot is a great testing platform, with "dynamic discussions" on. This reveals several bugs, making Firefox mobile 1.0 painful to use. For example clicking on a the subject of a hidden comment does load and expand the comment correctly, but then scrolls the page elsewhere where the comment is no longer visible. Something similar happens when replying to a comment.
• How can I copy/paste page and link URLs to an email, for example?
• Javascript seems to kill UI responsiveness (seen on slashdot.org article pages, to the point where it is impossible to open a link in a comment).

Keep up the good work! You'll get there.

Zooming with Ctrl-up and Ctrl-down works perfectly.

If your physical keyboard layout have the up/down keys in blue, like mine, you must also press the blue arrow together with Ctrl (easy as they are next to each other), otherwise you're really typing Ctrl-left or Ctrl-right.

While at first it seems handy that the N900 built-in browser, Microb, uses the volume control buttons for easy zooming, it's not so great once you'd actually like to change the volume quickly. (You'd have to use the desktop status area volume control in Microb.) Since some will prefer that anyway, a preference setting may be in place.