Hi fellows,

since I heard about the upcoming N900 a couple of weeks ago I frequently stop at by at the maemo page to see what is new and to get even more excited: I love Linux, I love the N900 capabilities, so I love Maemo. And I never had a Nokia before

I sent my question already to the Nokia support but did not get any reply:

Do you think that there is any chance to support Android apps on Maemo natively?

The idea is really basic: Itunes announced having 75000+ apps in their Iphone store (TV comercial), everybody is probably convinced that this is the biggest advantage of an Iphone, despite apples restricted policy and the Iphone OS which lacks lots of features. If I look at Maemo and the Maemo app store, the number is comparatively ridiculous small. Android announced not to long ago the first 10000+ apps.
But it is not difficult to see, that the Android OS is pushing very hard in the phone market and therefore it will hopefully soon outperform / challenge the Iphone and Itunes platform.

However, this won't work for Maemo, which runs on a few Nokia devices, so the impact wont be nearly as big. So would'nt it be worth the effort to integrate Android Apps / Android Apps store natively in Maemo? I am not a programmer, but I know enough to say that such a thing is not trivial. But taking into account the the android os is open source, based on linux like Maemo I somehow consider this as a serious possibility and definitely a absolute killer feature for Maemo.

Hopefully u guys can give me some input on that,

thanks, osfight