Thread: What apps are you missing for the Nokia N9?
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ajalkane is offline ajalkane
2012-05-29 , 06:00
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Originally Posted by SamGan View Post
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.
That may have something to do with it. And there's nothing wrong with it. N900 is obviously in many ways much less restricted than N9. This can put off many developers. And since we're talking about hobby developers doing the stuff for free, why would they use significant amount of time in porting to a platform that they are not excited about?

But I think the biggest practical reason is this: Many N9/N950 developers do not have N900, and many N900 developers do not have N9/N950. It's quite futile to try porting an application if you can't during development test that it works as intended.
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