As GeneralAntilles mentioned this is the best approach. Since the ovi store is not developing as it should for the best interest of all Maemo devices we should take the lead and make it happen, if Nokia/Ovi dont like it they should pull their finger out and make it happen.

We need a paid store to get paid for apps onto the platform to increase the available apps and to give a single appstore (just like apple) where everyone can find all the apps they need (free & paid) in one place under one tree, otherwise we will never compete with Apple.

We must take the best bits from apple and leave the rest.

This was something i raised as a brainstorm:

http://maemo.org/community/brainstor...ication_store/

It would probably be best to have a seperate section for paid apps/games so people dont get mislead, or a tag on the app so when you are looking through the directory you can see that it is a paid for app.