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Originally Posted by Bernard View Post
92.000 units is very little. Hope it isn't true. It is very difficult to develop commercial applications that specifically target the N9 with that amount of units.
So most commercial applications will probably be Symbian optimized, compiled for N9.

It also makes it very difficult for Nokia to really push the N9 as a development platform to small third-party developers. It is very costly for Nokia (since the sale of only 92.000 units need to cover the cost), and it is very doubtful if the third party developers will see a good return on investment.

I think Nokia realizes that and only wants a select few big third party developers making well known "killer apps", like Angry birds, and Skype. And isn't really interested in small third-party developers.

I have developed a port of an iOS game for maemo, and would like to make a N9 port. I applied for the N9 dev kit program, but didn't even get a reply (but I'm not a launchpad member, so maybe that is why, don't know ). Then I applied for the Developer Launchpad program in the hope that would provide a way of getting a dev kit. It has been weeks now, and my membership application still hasn't been reviewed yet.
I don't know what to think about all this. And since I don't live in any of the scheduled release countries, I'm very curious how difficult it will be to get an N9 here in the Netherlands.

I think it is a shame, because it would mean that a port will either be late, or not be released at all.
Bernard your posts speaks volumes as it is sad to read that keen developers are just not being treated in a good way at all, more so why the many are now reporting meego as dead.

Meego started with good intentions but failed to make an impression with many companies and the reason why the developers pulled out and moved ship.
A few mainstream games and apps will not be enough to fulfill customers needs and once again we will have a situation like Maemo but this time it is happening before everyones eyes and will be even worse than the situation with Maemo, and they are still so crazy about this N9, dumbfounds me.

The more information like yours that creeps out the woodwork puts together a clear picture of not only now but the future of meego and the N9, not good.

Am sorry to see a would be developer treated the way you are being treated.