Thread: Ovi Gaming article on what Maemo 5 means for games on Nokia devices
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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
Actually, that's pretty much bogus. Hardware is just one aspect of the equation (and not even necessarily the most important). With the exception of OpenGL ES, it's actually easier to port something from a desktop x86 Linux to Maemo (or vice versa) than it is from the iPhone or Pre.
That's interesting, in the early days people often talked about the CPU type being the key thing for porting to work but I suppose people used things like machine code a lot more back then.

Has programming become so removed from the hardware that the hardware type no longer makes that much difference?