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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Come again?

I can buy those apps and I'm about as common of an user as you can get.
From the page that was linked earlier they were saying it was not yet a commercial product. (Must be an old page...) Not having an iPhone to go look in the iStore for their app, I took the manufactures word for it that they were not yet available.

Again, this isn't about ray tracing. It's about what the device (and specifically what that OS on that device) was designed to do. There is no one perfect OS that can do everything on every piece of hardware with total efficiency and 100% functionality in all device markets. Even Windows has specific versions of it's OS for phones vs netbooks vs desktops vs servers. (And may argue they miss the mark on some of those platforms as well.)

The point here is that Maemo was designed to work on tablet computers. The Nx00 series have all been tablet computers, the N900 included. I wouldn't by a Lawnboy weed whacker and argue that it's a piss-poor lawnmower, or that it should be an efficient lawnmower because it has the Lawnboy name on it. I'd look at the model number, which would clearly set it in the trimmer category, and vote that out as a potential lawn mowing device. Especially if I had acres of land to mow.

Just sticking support for a SIM and a phone app into a computer doesn't make it a smartphone. And frankly that's about all that was done to the core of Maemo to put it on the N900. For most people (like me), that limited phone functionality is enough to replace their primary phone. (Just as for some people with yards measurable in square feet, a weed whacker is a viable lawn mower). If you absolutely need all your "smart phone" functionality, this is not your lawn mower!