Just like another new platforms, great device will not automatically be a good solution like what’s happened when Palm launched the Pre to the market while the applications were not ready yet. The same case now happens to the newly launched the Nokia N900 which is running on Maemo 5 software. Due to API changes dramatically in Maemo 5 from the previous Maemo platform, most applications built for the previous version will not automatically compatible to the Maemo 5. Now there’s a big question, where to get the applications for the N900?
In these videos below, Peter Schnaider, Head of Marketing of Maemo Devices, talked about this issue during the Nokia World Event last week. In summary, Nokia doesn’t worry about the applications since the Maemo 5 which is based on Linux is an open source platform and there are many strong open source communities that will work on those applications.
