Thread: [Maemo 5] We need more apps! Why aren't there more applications in Ovi Store and Extras?
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Joorin is offline Joorin
2010-05-03 , 15:54
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Originally Posted by pwannell View Post
However I have one major major hang up with it. There are NO apps for this device.
ORLY? As soon as I light the screen, friendly widgets look back at me and I can tickle them and they squirm and spray pixels at me.

Of course there are applications for the N900. This teenage style statement about there being NO applications is the worst about the technical attention deficit disorder so many seem to be suffering from.

Sure there are plenty in testing but even seeing these they really are lacking user interfaces that the N900 is capable of.
Hang on now. You just said there are NO applications and now there are plenty? It's just that you don't like what they do or how they look.

Do I agree on many applications not looking the best? Sure. But they are there, you can use them, they do function. If your main complaint is "There are NO pretty applications that I like for the n900!", I'd suggest that you say just that.

Now I have just been playing with a work colleagues Android HTC desire, a brand new phone but yet it comes with a full heap of apps readily available from the Google Community;
Bigger community with, in my view, better tools to develop things. And it's backed by Google which in itself guarantees the attention from big companies wanting to be seen on da Intertubes.

The barcode reader for instance is brilliant on the Desire, we have mbarcode still in testing with a user interface that leaves quite a bit to be desired and extra plugins that we need to install just to get it to lookup products online......
Not pretty enough... ok.

I am just interested to understand why if Nokia is SO large why we can't get proper development of applications for the Maemo Device.
Define "proper development", please.

If you want to help with getting applications into the public repositories, I suggest that you sign up as a tester. Mix your Python coding with testing the applications that would very well be ok to move to Testing. That way you can contribute even though you're not ready to write your own applications.