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"App"mania seems to have hit earth. Everyone is talking about it and asking for it. While the available numbers are low, the demand seems to be extremely high and $$MONEY$$ is to be made from "App-hype" mania. .

Still get people asking "Where are the apps for N900"?

Folks, having an app do the work for you at a price, connect you to a site, video, etc, is not somewhat necessary tool on the N900. Main reason iphone and few other phones needs to have apps to function is due to the hardware limitation which wil not allow the user to function the device without the app. These devices, in a sense are rendered useless without apps. For example, unless you have an app connecting the iphone to a site broadcasting video (such as pbs.org or Justin.tv), there is absolutely no way for the device to play those video. On the N900 with exception of recent flash player upgrades by few sites, such task can be achieved by simply visiting the site and watching the video (just like what you would do on your PC). N900 is designed and built with the intend that people would use it as they would their PC.

It is also somewhat evident that many people are either not technically inclined or lazy and are unable to figure out the potential of the N900. These are the ones who always compare the N900 with iphone and say these two sentences, "Where are the apps for N900?" or " I am dumping my N900 for iphone or android phone". Comparing the N900 to an iphone is like comparing a fully loaded Multimedia Computer to one that is basic and only come with an Operting System.

If only these people knew what N900 can do, then they can also take advantage of its usefull, fully functioning features. Most Mobile phones may have one feature better than N900 but they lack %90 functionality of what N900 does. I hope The question of the decade can be put to rest now;

"Where are the apps........?"

theyre here
repository.maemo.org/

i was joking about that last post dont worry im not a troll
well iphone and android both have A LOT more devs and support than the n900 will ever have, so obviously they will have more apps.
but we have mostly only useful apps because actual reguar people make them and they dont want to waste their time on farting apps and stupid stuff like that.
but think, when the n900 came out there were only 10 or so apps, but now theres more than a thousand!!! and there are many more to come
also you can use nitdroid if all the maemo apps just arent enough for you

The are none ( for the N900 ) but the N900 is way cheaper then the Iphone or the Nexus S or the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Correct me if I'm wrong!


P.S.: I have a script in my signature, too. I hope it is considered as an App, too. It makes your smartphone faster and your internet safer and faster! Go get it! It is better then swapoluble.

As a Linux user, that there made me cringe... I understand what you mean, but I'll take the nekkid OS over the "fully loaded" any day

In short

http://achipa.blogspot.com/2010/07/s...apps-part.html
http://achipa.blogspot.com/2010/07/w...ps-part-2.html
http://achipa.blogspot.com/2010/07/w...ps-part-3.html

I'm happy to see that many of the points I made have either already been adressed or are underway (no MTF/Orbit/QWidgets split, cool Symbian devices like the N8, etc), so not that bad, and as QtQuick gets mature, stuff can really start happening.

haha, reminds of an apple fanboy in my office last week boasting about how his iphone could edit photos after taking em. Showed him i have Gimp, and he clammed right up, lol

Waiting for you to code them, that's all.

I suspect I am not alone in circling the code
and looking for ways to code the things I want to see.
It is not necessarily easy or quick.
except for people (in no particular order except off the top of my head)
like qwerty12 qole. MohammadAG, Wonko and and other intrepid souls)

For the rest of us it is a long slog but well worth it.

Eventually, the bottom line is that if you want something no one else
has coded then you need to get off your @ and code it.

In extras-devel, all of them.

For two apps, look into my signature...