Thread: Is the N900 yet another user acceptance test device?
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DaveP1 is offline DaveP1
2009-10-07 , 20:37
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#44
Originally Posted by Hogwash View Post
Right now there is a dearth of apps for the N900, but this is remedied in good time, given a demand. The physical limitations of the N900 (memory, bandwidth, screen size) will present challenges for developers, but this has little to do with linux per se.
I'm willing to be educated so let me ask, why? Why can't I go to Mozilla, download and install Firefox; add Adobe Reader, Flash Player, and Java; and start browsing the web as it's supposed to be browsed?

It's not bandwidth because that just slows things down, it doesn't prevent things. As far as screen size, my OQO runs Windows in the same 800x480 pixels that are available to Linux on my N810.

Coming from the Windows world, my understanding is that the applications shouldn't care what hardware they are running on. Is that different in Linux?