Thread: Ovi Gaming article on what Maemo 5 means for games on Nokia devices
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Originally Posted by nowave7 View Post
But since both Maemo and Palm WebOS are Linux based, and that the hw -wise are the same, it is fair to presume the basic apps, should work on both devices (apps that don't rely on specifics of both devices).
It's really not. The problem with both Android and webOS is that lock you into their respective userspaces since both Palm and Google decided to put together their own basically from scratch.

Nokia went the other direction and modified desktop libraries for use on a mobile device which is why it's reasonably straightforward to run regular Linux applications in Maemo and vice versa. The same is not true of either Android or webOS. For Android you need Davlik, for webOS you'd need a lot of hacking.
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