I understand that some developers are just getting started. Others, every one that's in the app store now, got it a long time ago. I think Nokia may have made a mistake by not releasing it to more developers until today. That's my opinion for what it's worth. We shall see.

As far as Downloads, yes, I know it's there. I was responding to mike c's comment "But we have had maemo garage for three years, its easy to use, and all the apps are free." The first and last statements are true, the second is not. So as not to pick too much on mafw-lastfm, let's go to the second news item, pidgen, which never mentions (for the benefit of those who were using AIM or Yahoo Messenger or Trillian, etc) that it's a chat program.

As it stands now, maemo.org is not customer oriented, it is developer oriented, and that is not a bad thing as long as maemo.org recognizes that and wants that. And I have suggested elsewhere that the customers might be better served if they were walled off and maybe even exiled to Tablet101.

If on the other hand, maemo.org wants to become more customer oriented then there needs to be more recognition that customers may not recognize things that developer recognize. Furthermore, if maemo.org wants to become more customer oriented then it's the developers who will need to change.