Now I'd like to share some thoughts about what is being discussed here. At first, I think the N900vsN9 thing is ridiculous. N9 is still a rebranded maemo, the toolchains for developing on both devices are the same, and applications can be cross compiled easily. And having an advanced and easy to use toolchain for the N9 has made me among others take the plunge and start making apps for maemo. Knowing that the N900 is a more capable device, and because thankfully the easy toolchain has been backported to fremantle has given us an incentive to develop for the N900 too. So please stop that us vs them thing because a big percentage of maemoers which is getting bigger every day belong both to 'us' and 'them'. I could see a slight reasoning behind the distinction if the N9 was the mass market device it was designed to be but it is not, it is just another maemo device for the enthusiast (the N900 when launched was the next big thing, the N9 was DOA). Also the N9 runs something that resembles fremantle more than meego proper so poor guys trying to do something linux-y have more chance to find a solution here than over at meego.com [...]
Hm, I am "converted one" for sure, but anyway... How you are going to convince Harmatan developers to backport stuff to fremantle if they have to twist their code so much, that at the end of the day it becomes not a backport, but another project? Take qmltube for example - backporting to CSSU Fremantle is a matter of re-packaging and some namespace tweaking AIUI. Ask marxian what costs him to keep it compatible with PR1.3. [...]