Comparing android market, iOS app store and the maemo extras I have reached the following conclusion. There are a million apps for the android and iOS but the quality of a great percentage of those apps is below average. And i don't mean the graphics. I mean the actual usefulness. If i carry a 160 gram brick in my pocket I want it to almost replace my netbook. As stated in the adobe website only the nexus one is capable of full flash. I couldn't find a decent ftp app for the iOS. Almost all of the free apps in both market and app store are merely stripped down or demos of a paid app. On the contrary each time I check extras I find one or two new apps that are really useful. For most of them there are no alternatives in other platforms. And they are all free. No disabled features no ads nothing. No other device has a full spreadsheet app, even office mobile for wm is poor compared to gnumeric. Mypaint is something you can find in no mobile device. All major browsers can be run on maemo. It is not perfect, I am sure more apps can come (eg the gimp) but let's stop asking for just a bigger number of apps. I wouldn't like the money making noise of the app store, all that crap that hides away the really useful stuff. Let's keep the quality up, focus on migrating the existing apps to meego or ubuntu mobile (because inevitably maemo is going to fade away).
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Milana cam