Thread: Google Nexus One, The Phone I Should Have Bought From The Very Start.
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terryowen is offline terryowen
2010-07-02 , 18:00
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#30
Originally Posted by pagesix1536 View Post
Eh, if the N900 had a decent amount of developers and apps available, even just a small fraction of what Android has in the Marketplace, it would be much better off. I've considered doing the same thing as the OP, and dropping my N900 and throwing the SIM in a Nexus One. My wife has a Droid and even without true multitasking and a command prompt, the apps make it worth it. Navigation is top notch, the video games rock, Android has Trapster (heck, Blackberry has Trapster).

I love my N900 and I use the heck out of it everyday, but it has not caught on with developers and there is a sever lack of apps for it. I might go for a Nexus One as well if I can find a decent price on one.
I love the N900 but this hits home for me, too. I had to dig out my G1 the other day to look something up and I was sad to realize how much I missed my apps that I used every day. Then when I went to the market and downloaded the Kindle app, I was even sadder.

I know there isn't a perfect phone out there but if I had an emulator (not dual boot) where I could run Android apps, 99% of my irritation with the N900 would go away. I would pay for an Android emulator. Like I would pay for a decent RSS feed reader with feed adding search functionality. And ports of Coloroid and Zen Garden. And some of the flying apps that have shown up in the market since I got my Nokia.

And that's the problem, I think developers assume that Linux users won't pay for apps and that's not true. Maybe on the desktop it might be - and honestly on my home server machine I've never needed to - but mobiles are different.

I'm not a software developer or I would take a stab at porting some apps. I know back in my Motorola A780 days there would be bounties posted for desired apps. Is there something similar for N900? Developers should get some rewards from their efforts or they'll eventually stop or move on to the next platform.

I'm turned off by Google and Apple's big brother behavior so that's not the solution. But it's all about the apps, especially when you sink hundreds of unsubsidized dollars into a phone - you want equal functionality and it's not unreasonable to want it. I just don't know how to help make it happen.

Terry