Thread: What apps are you missing for the Nokia N9?
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SamGan is offline SamGan
2012-05-29 , 05:41
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Originally Posted by pycage View Post
N900 apps are usually written with Gtk+, Hildon, or Hildonified Qt Widgets.
All this does not exist on the N9, so porting an app from N9 to N900 is often a lot easier than vice versa.
Thank you for pointing this out. It explains partly why few N900 apps have been ported to N9 but the the other part is still lack of developer interest to do so. Many Maemo5 developers have actually left the platform due to impotent rage with Nokia over the termination of Maemo5 and remain hostile to N9 as a bastardized child of Maemo and Moblin.

However the fact remains that the N900 has enjoyed a new lease of life with the coming of N9 with more apps and renewed community interest by association.