Thread: Confirmed/CAUTION: N900 Ovi Apps require Corporation + $1M USD Corporate General Liability Insurace
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2009-11-20 , 09:31
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fyi I have been forwarding and summarizing the main points of this and the previous thread to the relevant people in the Maemo, Forum Nokia and Ovi teams.

Originally Posted by RevdKathy View Post
What Nokia is doing is not recognising that devs from here will be offering apps that have been fully tested as far as possible. Fred Bloggs writes an app: he offers it to Apple and they test it thoroughly to make sure there are no problems. Then they deduct half his price for this privilege. He offers it to Nokia and they [i]don't[i] test it: they make sure that he's got insurance in case it all goes tits up.
Maemo apps submitted to the Ovi store will go through a testing process! Legal requirements and testing requirements are totally different things, one doesn't exclude the other.

About Nokia recognising or not the work done by developers from here, I hope your measures are not done looking only at Ovi. Nokia is making a very significant investment and bet with maemo.org, including Downloads & the Extras repositories.


Apps from here will have all been tested. In fact, there's no reason why we couldn't train and accredit a bank of "app testers" to try to limit the risk. (Effectively we already have them - ourselves). That's the bit Ovi is missing. We have to show them - creating a co-op would be one way of doing that.[/QUOTE]
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