Thread: Why buy a N900 now with MeeGo on the horizon?
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buurmas is offline buurmas
2010-02-24 , 15:47
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Originally Posted by kenga View Post
Does it mean, that: community supported maemo6 will not have DRM and commercial applications for maemo6 will not run on n900?
That's a plausible scenario.

Originally Posted by kenga View Post
I see no any updated/new applications for maemo4, now I see the same future for maemo5.
It seems like you're assuming that most Harmattan/MeeGo apps will be DRM'ed. Time will tell, but I was not assuming that. I think there will be F/OSS apps created with Qt 4.6 that will trickle down to your N900. And Nokia appears to think this as well, based on multiple statements.
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