Thread: Ouch... Android is making my n900 look bad.
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2010-01-05 , 21:36
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Originally Posted by bugelrex View Post
3 years ago, if you wanted to develop for mobile you had choice of windows mobile or symbian. Now you have iphone, windows, symbian, android, maemo, palm

What is Nokia doing to attract developers (other than a free loaner device) when there potentially alot more money to be made in iphone,andriod apps with better documentation and marketing.

I don't see how Nokia is going to attract developers away from the other platforms other than an app store with:
- 90% profit to developer
- at least giving 100 dollars for each non-fart app just for creating the app
- access to all the Maemo source code and shipped apps on the phone to see how things really work under the covers.
Symbian has most of the world's smartphone market (if I remember reading it correctly)..that's an incentive right there. Your app could theoretically target an audience that dwarfs everyone else.

We're probably more likely to benefit from Symbian apps coming to Maemo than Maemo apps going to Symbian given that Maemo has an upward climb.
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...