Thread: Light at the end of the tunnel for apps?
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Rushmore is offline Rushmore
2009-12-13 , 02:17
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
I've been pondering how would you entice developers to the platform. Developers that already have a product that could either port or code for the Maemo platform.

I have a few niche apps, some mainstream, that would make me jump wholeheartedly to the Maemo platform. With the better camera, I'd love a tilt-shift app, have one on the iPhone. Or perhaps a few more location aware apps...

With that said, I'd love to see more apps. How would you get the people to the platform?
Android and iPhone's dev community was fueled by Google and Apple providing "easy" SDK access and resources (for the most part) and heavily involved with organizing the dev communities. Their marketing was also involved to provide a clear vision and presentation of the OS to the initial dev community. Money was also provided as incentive for some initial apps and then the potential of making money from the market, created the self-perpetuating action fueled by consumer demand. Hence my point about a micro-economy.

If this same level of dev foundation building is being fostered by Nokia for Maemo 5, it is transparent to me. Nokia seems to be spread out with too many OS frameworks- (Maemo 5,6 and S60).

Seems to me Nokia is leveraging too much on the current community and not making much of an effort themselves (IMO).
Last edited by Rushmore; 2009-12-13 at 02:25.
 

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