Thread: SIO2 Interactive spamming votes to get his/her applications to Extras
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tomster is offline tomster
2010-02-18 , 12:43
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Originally Posted by EzInKy View Post
You do bring up some interesting points, even if it they are only two coppers worth B-)
Feel free to think that way. But please allow me to think differently.

Originally Posted by EzInKy View Post
This could be a symptom of something bigger though, such as the clash between the Linux and Windows worlds.
Word! You might just have pinpointed the reason for the whole N900-"apps" thing missing a leg. What would you think being the reason for e.g. the iPhone being such a hype if it would not have all the (yes, payed!) applications available for it? Yet another mobile phone (YAMP) - no more no less.

They (Editor's note: Apple) found a way to both satisfy end-users and developers by selling all those tiny apps for little money. The one side won't bother spending a buck or two on a useless app while the other side gets their royalties by each click straight.

This won't mix to well with the open-source minded maemo clientel though. At least what I can read from most of the postings on this thread...

Call it a guess, but making iPhone users blindly paying $29.99 for another useless app is a piece of cake compared to convincing us N900-nerds to pay a single penny for even a fully grown office suite.

Originally Posted by EzInKy View Post
In Linux free means "use and share", non-free means "use but don't share", and commercial means "use but pay up". Nobody cares if SIO2 depends on financial returns to continue development, they only care that they are upfront about it.
If "paying" will keep up their(/his?) good work I'm perfectly fine with it. I'll gladly pay for applications if they're worth the money. Everybody has to decide individually how much that'd be in absolute numbers though. Just feel free to not buy it ;-)