Thread: How can we encourage iPhone developers to develop on Maemo?
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nilchak is offline nilchak
2009-08-19 , 16:10
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Originally Posted by nwerneck View Post
I don't think it is a coincidence.

If competing with the crowd means starting to wear the 'right' clothes, listen to the 'right' music and hanging out with the popular 'winners', I sure prefer to stay at the geeky niche being myself.

The chess club is open for anyone to come in.
So you want Maemo to cater to a niche set of users and be developed for by a niche set of developers ?

Go develop for the Zaurus then.

I don't understand what this niche refers to in the case of a phone.
As far as I can tell, its either mainstream or its dead. There's no niche in it. When WinMo was a small market - nobody called it niche. It was a laggard. Now its mainstream.
When Openmoko came out with the phone, nobody called it niche. It was a failure.

Yeah if it was a specialized equipment with a specialized usage then a niche would work. Its a smartphone for God's sake. What's niche about that ?
 

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