Thread: Problem: Compatibility breaks between OS and device releases
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ddalex is offline ddalex
2009-10-16 , 16:28
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#11
Originally Posted by twaelti View Post
You really wrote that in ultrarant mode I fear. My experience is completely different. In my opinion, everybody who made a medium contribution to the community got in the dev program (just see me with the N810 and the N900).
And in the end: the device program offers a discount of how much? 200 EUR perhaps? This completely pales in relation to the hours of work needed for any developer to contribute just a small app. The discount is absolutely insignificant, it's just a nice gesture from Nokia towards the constructive part of the community.

Really, these rants are absolutely unnecessary.
A rant is a rant . It is a personal opinion, and other people realities don't necessarily matches one's reality. If I wrote that, I deem'd it necessary.

About the device program, I'm not sure about N810, but on N800 it was supposed to be an idea contest. The totally obscure way Nokia decided to handle this upsets me: the karma point computation is not transparent, and the criteria based on Karma seems somewhat arbitrary.

About the developer in question, he's not very active on the forum, but his application is in top 30 most downloaded applications for OS2008 - still he doesn't qualify. I think that's just not right, but I'm not gonna name him/her, if they want to come out it will be their choosing to do so. So how's that karma computed again ?

The monetary value is not important here - the recognition is. This is why I'm pissed off. If someone at Nokia wants to check all this, please be my guest.