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2007-11-11 , 02:28
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#75
Originally Posted by bunanson View Post
"The problem with the N800 is that it simply lacks software beyond the basics"...........upon open box. If you do not mind, as we are doing in this forum, say install Video Center/becomeroot/rdesktop/KDE/Konqueror/MMapper/Canola...I can go on and on, then the tablet is quite comparable to a functional laptop.

bun
You could go on and on but you would be less and less convincing.
It's closer to the truth to say that the number of usefull apps available from Maemo can be counted on your fingers and possibly using only one hand. Other than the half dozen "stars" there are only utilities and games ported over in hobbists spare time and a big number of then are only shell/dos apps. It is great that anybody can write their own apps from the open source code but the reality of that is a lot of the stuff is of little use except to the creator as a programming project for school and not of commercial quality.
You really have to lower your expectations to think that is a rosy scenario. Perhaps the compatibility changes to OS2008 will help to fix that, I hope so. Although the SDK for the Iphone/touch has not been relased yet, when it is you can expect to see a greater
number of developers start porting over their OSX apps then Linux developers for the 810.