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Originally Posted by ragnar View Post
Well, we're doing our best to try to get the "internet culture" to the mobile device.

Then, a mobile market means something quite different. Mobile markets, let's say the Apple App. store - or whatever - are successful because there is some money involved, i.e. financial incentive for developers to create good applications and to compete against other developers by building better apps. It is not to say that open source wouldn't also work for some cases, but that supporting also the commercial route isn't a bad thing.

Anyway, taking that isolated comment from Tero further isn't imho particularly constructive.

Btw, for the original topic. The N97 is indeed shaping up to be a really nice device, I've had some chance to play around with it.
I'm thinkin' Apple makes money the same way they did with the iPod... (another "free" market others couldn't figure out.) They make hardware that works very well doing what most new users expect.

The functions of most of the "App's" in the Apple store appear to me to be just recycled J2ME. (tasks not code)
Some of these J2ME concepts have been around for over 10 years.

Manufacturers and US carriers could have sold tons of these apps if the were not so focused on controlling the connection through pay per bit billing schemes, proprietary cables, and check summed loaders.

BTW, if benny1967's posted quote is any indication of Nokia Executives current mind set, I have a much greater appreciation of how tough qgil's day job must really be.