Thread: This is just not ambitious enough
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geohsia is offline geohsia
2010-02-17 , 16:44
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Originally Posted by zwer View Post
I'd hate to pull out the old iFart argument, but the fact is that the vast majority of those 100,000+ apps are:
1) Really pointless crap that either nobody uses, or use them once in their lifetime - to see what the hell is it all about
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Now, 1000 useful apps is not a small thing by any means, but if you take that it took 3 years to get to that on one of the most widely marketed mobile device in history that doesn't really impress me. N900 has been around for less than 4 months and you have around 50 applications that hold some real value in the repositories, which IMO is not bad at all
Look we can pull out the extremes. Have you heard of the $1000 iPhone app by BarMax. Yes they have a small audience, but the point is they changed the game for how their industry sells product and they benefit. between iFart and BarMax are there tons of opportunity in between? Absolutey. People are being creative with a platform that has a lot of visibility. That's a good thing right? Choice and opportunity benefit customers, no?

BTW, you picked an arbitrary number that you're not impressed by, wonderful. You're assumption is that only 1% of iPhone apps are useful but somehow around 30% of N900 apps are useful. Nice fair analysis.

And post N900 the counter gets reset and Harmattan / Meego start from 0 with all QT apps. What good are those 50 then?


Originally Posted by zwer View Post
Probably Nokia then, as they make more money on their mobile phones (including the money coming from the `poor African farmer` that many people laugh at) than Apple makes with all their products. And all that while Nokia funds R&D team that counts more employees than the whole Apple corp. which spends majority of its money on marketing. No, I'm not a fanboi of both of those (loving a company is a lot like loving cyanide just because it has that sweet almond smell), but if I have to compare...
We're talking the smartphone market right? Yes I know that Nokia sells its share of smartphones (few to the poor African farmer but I could be wrong). The problem with all of that R&D is that they can't make up their mind. Maemo, Meego, Mer? I'm glad they have time for science experiments but as a consumer I'd prefer they pick a platform stick to it and iterate it over time. Yeah, everyone loves to work on the new next best thing since sliced bread that will blow away all others before but you now what. It's getting old, don't you think?