This will probably end up being more of a rant then anything useful so if you're not interested you can stop reading now.

Why does it seem just about any app you install or un-install has the possibile ability of killing your NIT/OS forcing you to reflash ?

Is EVERY app available then considered a beta ?

If you download any apps from Maemo why don't these apps go through some sort of a QA process, even by other members before they are "approved" for mainstream consumption.

Perhaps a rating system or a readiness rating could be incorporated on apps avail through Meamo, something that more or less guarantee's the app not to kill your NIT's OS ?


I realize that many apps discussed here in the ITT forums are new, on the bleeding edge and as such maybe we need to have some sort of separation between apps that are tried and tested and those that aren't.

I'm just getting sick of having to re-flash my system and go through and re-install all my apps because someone forgot or missed something in their coding, that should have been caught before hand.

I've had to re-flash at least a doz times since I got my tablet a little more then a year ago, this is ridiculous.

I'm not even gonna bring up the whole Open Source OS vs MS Windows thing, because could you hear the endless screams and rants from every Windows owner if they had to re-install their OS just because they DL and installed an application and it either messed up their OS' registry or you no longer want it but can't get rid of the residue from the app unless you reformatted and had to start all over ?

These types of things are holding back the NIT from ever going mainstream.

We NEED applications that WORK period, and don't require learning command line utilities etc. to either make it work or to fix it when it messes up our systems.

It seems the more and more I use my NIT the less I want to because everything seems to be twice as hard to do then it would on any other platform.

We are on our 3rd gen/iteration of OS and we still have these types of problems, it's inexcusable and unacceptable.