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#11
Originally Posted by Freemantle View Post
@ARJWright

you've made some important points there, in the context of community led development, which is one of the strong suits of this platform.

But, isn't there also a strong case for commercial development that can run parallel with the community? this isn't a problem for the community, but one for Nokia. Without a viable sales outlet for third party application development, Nokia aren't going to attract third party software, and the development of the N900 will solely be in the hands of the community. We've seen SIO2Interactive trying their best to get a paid for app in the system, whilst the Angry Birds level pack has been pulled, and the community has been left to design their own levels. Workarounds really are not the way forward, but simply the best available when Nokia cannot get it's house in order. The N900 deserves a better showcase than this, surely.
Here's the flip of table that Nokia is (partially) betting on: that there are enough use cases that aren't covered by free open source software to create commerical opportunities for those interested. And if Nokia can foster the right devices alongside such an open ecosystem, then it effectively makes possible those efforts commercially.

Its not really different from the current market except that Nokia isn't just making the platform open, but everything the platform runs on too.

If done right, then it creates an opportunity like this thread for open discussion; if not, then this kind of thread quickly becomes a stopping point for open and commercial opportunities.