Thread: N900 Not the perfect phone?...apparently not
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2009-10-17 , 07:51
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#61
Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
6. Complaining about lack of software for a unit that is not available to the general public and is known to be primarily supported by independent developers is kind of silly (seriously, dude...). Also, official Qt won't help symbian applications to get to Maemo as there IS NO significant amount of symbian Qt apps at this point.
Actually, this is a classic chicken-and-egg problem. Most Maemo5 applications can now be found in Extras-Testing, but not in Extras. In order to promote them into Extras, at least 10 people should try each app and vote for it. But the normal users do not see Extras-Testing, they only see Extras. So, they can't install and test Extras-Testing apps and vote for them. Result: "lack of software" for Maemo5 .
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