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attila77	2010-01-25 , 11:29
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Originally Posted by Laughing Man

There's also multiplayer, and high score support. That would also let you have some DRM like control without being too intrusive too.

Technically, that's the 'service' category.

Originally Posted by go1dfish

Or you know, just don't treat your customers like criminals and sell them unencumbered non-restricted content to begin with.

That's not what I was talking about. When the application itself is the value, the lack of DRM *is* discouraging for commercial developers, because it makes it easy to part the developer from the value. That's why THIS PARTICULAR business model prefers DRM. The number of people who realize just what DRM is is so little the 'upside' of gaining 'educated' customers is just not worth it from a financial standpoint. Today, if you want to forego DRM, you have to opt for a different business model - fighting DRM head on with this business model will lead nowhere.

All of these are already possible without the Ovi store, except maybe Ads.

Everything is possible without the Ovi store. Ovi store is primarily a convenience factor to facilitate easier payment. The problem that people have been 'trained' to think of a Store/Marketplace as a central/only place to acquire software is a different issue.

Any open source app serving ads is just asking for a fork.

There is no support for open source apps on Ovi (for now) so open source apps are completely out of scope in this thread.

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