Maemo Select - Nokia's appstore
 

Maemo Select will be application store for maemo devices. There is a nice screen shot of Maemo select with screen shot, rating and reviews.

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I think without a way of 'monetizing' maemo select it will not be an app store, just more of a showcase, like the Tableteer site on N800 home screen. An AppStore I view as a place where developers can 'sell' software, if Nokia port Ovi store from s60 and s40 to maemo which I am sure is a possibility then that becomes a real AppStore.

Since there is a web based Ovi Store there is no need to port anything simply add an Ovi category.

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From the maemo select website

"Maemo Select is the place to discover the most popular downloads from the Maemo community and Ovi Store. Choose your favourite applications, themes, and wallpapers to personalise your Maemo device."

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Well it has a 'store' in its name.

Let's put up big banners to welcome the commercial developers to Maemo and hope they'll thrive :D

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I think this is a mistake for Nokia. They should make the Ovi Store the defacto spot for apps. Separating Maemo will cause issues, and cause people to choose to view one over the other, instead of keeping it all in one spot.

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The "maemo select" should be put inside ovi store as a subfolder, just because the nokia services are named ovi... otherwise it just gets confusing.

It shouldn't be in Ovi store along the current applications for symbian, but in another separate folder under ovi. Withe the same subcategories: apps, games, ...

And N-Gage better be part of Maemo as well. It is a good community of playes, which can be used as is because it is hard to create a new gaming community - just for playing in the network, reviews, etc.

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Are you certain Maemo Select isn't just an area for Nokia to highlight "the best of the best" from both Ovi Store and maemo.org Downloads?

For some time now, Nokia has been working on a syndication scheme that will bring information about the best applications on maemo.org Downloads to maemo.nokia.com. If commercial Maemo apps are to live in Ovi Store, Nokia will do the same for those apps.

I see Maemo Select as more of a greatly improved "Featured downloads" from the OS2008 User Site than a store in and of itself.

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I disagree on it not being in the Ovi Store. I don't know if you've used the Ovi Store, but it is device specific on the device, i.e. it only shows you the apps compatible with your device, so you couldn't see all the Symbian 3rd or 5th Edition stuff, nor the Maemo stuff from incompatible versions (if there is such a thing.) It basically just made a new app store, and detracted from Ovi altogether.

Now that I think of it, this is good, because Ovi is only for Nokia so far, and Maemo will have other manufacturers down the line.

As for Ngage, unless Ngage's App toolkit becomes based on Qt and MAFW, I don't know that Maemo will work for Ngage, or if Maemo will be the preferred choice for gaming. I noticed there was no Dpad, which makes gaming easy, so maybe not.

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Why are they using a separate brand for this?

Why not call it Ovi Store? Why not use Ovi accounts?

Ovi Store is already multiplatform, the client is available in Symbian on S60 devices and Java on Series 40 devices, and it already carries software from many platforms (Symbian, Java, Flash Lite). What would be the problem with adding one more platform to that?

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Honestly, I much prefer the Maemo Community to have control over the distribution channels (as we do now) than for Nokia to have control (especially if that control is primarily in S60-oriented hands).