Thread: SIO2 Engine 3D Engine on the N900
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twaelti is offline twaelti
2010-01-27 , 07:34
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#43
Originally Posted by Flandry View Post
The original quote was "Everyone would benefit in Nokia sponsoring/buying/supporting a port of SIO2 to Maemo." That's clearly not true. Resources are always limited, and how they are allocated is relevant. Since you asked, more productive uses for the resources would be to extend and complete core functionality and bring Ovi Maps to feature parity with Symbian, to name a couple.
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Remember, this is maemo.org, the community for promoting and developing for Maemo. Opinions are great but don't compile very well.
And for me, it's clearly true Games are for fun, handy for showing off a platform and an important part for any marketing strategy if you want to reach a wider audience. Having a 3D game engine with games available would give a big boost to an otherwise still very small offering, at a price that IMHO might well be very affordable. Just take a look at the sold apps charts for the iPhone - games and entertainment mostly. For good or bad.

And about maemo.org: to walk the talk is always difficult for most people, just see the signal-to-noise ratio here The forum is especially prone to lengthy discussions at all levels of knowledge and experience...


Last but not least: I do not think it's appropriate to wield the moderator stick and ask others about their contributions while we are in a interesting and quite constructive discussion about the importance of platform elements. Otherwise we could as well attach CVs to each profile, yearly income, list of community projects and numbers of sold software. You "newcomer", you
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