f Don't misunderstand me as a consumer who has no coding ability what so ever. Remember, I paid for many apps for my Palm OS Sony Clie device through the ORIGINAL app stores PalmGear and Handmark. The difference is there were easy to find and implement ways to get and pay for what app I needed. That isn't available here in the Maemo community. In the downloads page everything is free. If there were paid options, I probably would have opted for a few of those.
The only thing I would now disagree with you on is the low dollar figure you suggested to get some attention on app creation ($80 - $100). I was under the impression it would be several hundred dollars just for starters.