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Originally Posted by s2k View Post
It is comparing apples and oranges
It sure is. Anyway, I liked the numbers.

Originally Posted by s2k View Post
limited number of open source/free apps for a device with a limited userbase to commerical apps on a commerically run store for a mass market device.
... I still have to think about this. My assumption always was that because the number of devices sold is so different, even a very unsuccessful commercial jPhone app would have masses of downloads compared to a very popular, free Maemo-app. This, at least, seems to be wrong.

Also, you have to take into account that while on the Apple-side the store-statistics pretty much cover all downloads for an application offered there, figures on downloads.maemo.org aren't necessarily complete. The *.deb could be floating around everywhere on the web, hosted by the author on a separate homepage or whatever, so the counter at maemo.org says something like "at least xxx copies sold downloaded".

What do I make of all this? Nothing. It's nonsensical statistics. But at least now I know that publishing a good Maemo application has a potential of being more rewarding (in terms of ego, karma and such, not in terms of money) than publishing an average application for the jPhone.... which I didn't believe before.