What makes you think it wont run Google Apps?

The Maemo web browser is probably the only mobile web browser that DOES run actual Google Apps. I would be highly surprised if it doesn' run real Gmail, real Google Docs, real Google Maps. Not some watered down and cooked local apps that give you a FEW of the features of an actual Google app. Even Android doesn't run the real Google apps, but finger-friendly versions of the mobile apps, or local low-feature versions of Google apps.

That's what you ought to ask, over in the general forum: Does the N900 run real Google Apps. Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Maps, etc.