Re: porting iphone apps to n900
 

No thanks - I don't want trillions of crap applications drowning the good quality apps.

Leave them for people who get amused for 30 seconds and never use them after that.

Re: porting iphone apps to n900
 

looks like ofels works for the big apple!! as if patents are going to stop someone with talent if they choose to. :D

Re: porting iphone apps to n900
 

No, I don't. Your conclusion is completely wrong.
And the point is not about patents but copyrights and license agreements. A company providing stuff to the Appstore owns the copyrights for it and Apple owns the rights to have it exclusively for the iPhone unless some other agreement is made.
Porting apps without Apples and the producers permission violates a bunch of laws, though it is the business of those talented to go through the expensive fight with the respective companies (including Apple).
Plus it sheds a rather bad light on the Maemo community if "stealing" ideas and intellectual property (from the perspective of the stakeholders) is an accepted way to increase the number of applications for Maemo.

Re: porting iphone apps to n900
 

Making a program that emulates the macOS is not illegal. So could be provided. People who then use it to play illegal downloaded content is.

Why else would there be a snes en gameboy emulator?

Even better is that when a third party programmer makes a emulator apple cant do anything about it to nokia. Because its not their fault.

This would be a great thing! not for all the crap apps we have. but to anoy apple :)

Re: porting iphone apps to n900
 

"They can" does not necessarily mean "they do". Also there might be different license agreements to be signed with Apple and looking at Rovio with their Angry Birds being available for several platforms they might have done that.