given that a lot of the apps on the iphone may be useless and redundant, i guess my primary concern is having maemo5 or my n900 becoming altogether outdated/lost on the next release.

while i'm sure i can sell it to my brother so it's not an issue on the financial front, i don't like the idea that nokia would do something like that.

i've finally gotten around to looking at videos for the nexus one and i'm happy to say that i'm not impressed... my n900 already does all those things anyway

but it does make me wonder about the competition nokia has though. there have already been videos about android on the n900, which i'm looking forward to in development, but what about the apps? I'm not looking for apps to impress my friends (after all, why would i need a facebook app or a google maps app when i can just bookmark them and have them on my desktop in glorious full browser format?) i'm looking for apps because i feel it would mean a bigger sales for the n900 on nokia's part.

the mass public have been fascinated with apps since the iphone's release, something that's carried on over to the android, and i feel like more development of apps would translate into bigger sales. In my mind, bigger sales = bigger support on nokia's part for the n900 and making it worthwhile for the developer community to contribute something much more significant for maemo.

as someone previously stated maemo 1-4 has had a lot of apps and whatnot, but with the new release of the n900, where are those apps heading? it seems like most prior owners of the n series have ditched their older models for the newest release, and since the past maemo apps are no longer compatible with the newer models, they're useless for the new model owners.

i know this may sound like trolling/griping, but it's more out of concern that nokia would run a business like this. the past success of smartphones like iphone and android has been dependent quite a bit on the developer community, and that means it's imperative that new firmware updates/apps are transferrable to older hw (ie maemo6 on n900). without it, i'm not sure the developers have an incentive to program quality software worth investing time and effort into.

But as we know, the n900 is the second to the last stop for the n series as nokia has said. perhaps the next release will result in the final culmination of the vision nokia has in mind.