Thread: How can we encourage iPhone developers to develop on Maemo?
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attila77 is offline attila77
2009-08-19 , 11:28
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#109
Originally Posted by fms View Post
iPhone/etc. users is not how you will grow the community in this case. Unless you are mega success, you should grow community by converting Symbian and MIDP users/developers, i.e. guys that would naturally want to upgrade by switching.
That's a vicious circle. Without the sufficient number of users (and thus devices) there would be no developers on the iPhone, either. No iPhone/MIDP/Symbian dev will switch to Maemo until they believe there are enough users to make their efforts worthwhile. That's why even the basic device/app offer has to be impressive enough to 'infect' as many innocent users as possible, and use that feedback loop later to strengthen the platform.