Thread: Ouch... Android is making my n900 look bad.
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iamNarada is offline iamNarada
2010-01-05 , 19:45
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#25
Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
Maemo3 =/= Maemo4 =/= Maemo5

If that were the case you could easily take an app from back then and run it now. Maemo 5 and Maemo 6 sharing QT libs will hopefully remedt this problem. Heck even taking Chinook and Diablo apps and trying to run them on the N900 is a game. You have no idea what works or not due to all the changes. Some apps you'll find it installs when you expect they wouldn't and the apps you think would work won't.
Oh, believe me I know (I've got a 770 and a n800). Regardless, each version carried some of the soul of it's predecessor forward, it nothing else than in capabilities. The apps...well, I really don't know the situation regarding backward compatibility on the other platforms (Android, iphone). I seem to remember some functionality on some apps being broken on Android upgrades, but I don't remember the details. And I know nothing about the iphone.