Thread: why doesn't maemo get traction in the market
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ddalex is offline ddalex
2009-10-23 , 11:00
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#18
Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
We have ~500 applications now. That's plenty. Really. If I go to the Ovi Store with my S60v3 device, I get ~1000 Applications (including games). Now compare the number of S30v3 devices sold to that of Maemo devices... And add to that the fact that people who publish @ovi.com can make money from their applications...
Well, let's look at the most succesfull aplications for Maemo 4, and we'll see nothing ground breaking, but apps that are considered "must have" system enhancements on a smartphone or Linux computer and that come already embedded in the most cases on Android. Specifically, top apps are: Personal Menu, Power Monitor, Weather widget, Media Player, Mapper, SSH, Mplayer, Instant messaging, More Media Player, System Monitor, WifiInfo, Sound Recorder, More media players.... I don't know how to emphasize this, but there are NO applications that let you DO nice things on Maemo apart from monitoring the system and consume media.

We don't have groundbreaking work as Layar because... what exactly ? Why students with reseach projects don't embrace Maemo and publish software on it ? What other great software apart from liqbase do we have on Maemo ? What is that the Maemo is missing to enhance its appeal to innovators, and how can we ammend that ?