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Originally Posted by jtmstr View Post
ps. In my opinion is not good thing to suggest that every N900 owner should be developer or shut up.
I hope that's not how my post came across to you, as that's not what I meant in any case. But there does need to be a realization of the state of play with this device. That part of my post was more to garner interest in those who would be interested in starting developing.

I have work, two childs and hobbys that takes all of my time but im willing to pay for quality content that makes my unfinished phone better. Isn't that enough?
Nobody is expecting more from you individually, but if you mean to have a successful app store? Then the honest answer is, frankly, no. It's not enough. Not on it's own atleast.

To make a successful application store you need more than that. You need a large potential customer base of people like you and me who are happy to pay for quality apps, in order to get the developers interested. Then you need good development tools and resources available for the developers to work with. You also need a good quality app store with payment system. Along with that you need good marketing a bit of the x-factor to set it off. And all that gets buyers interested and starts the cycle off again..

Nokia were far too slow with Qt 4.6 sdk and pr 1.2, the Ovi store is a mess, poor marketing, you name it.. it hasn't been very successful to date. Hopefully lessons will be learned and carried forward, but it'll come too late for the n900. However the Symbian side is a lot better, in hindsight perhaps we'll see much of this wasn't really in the plan for the n900 - goals rather than necessities.
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Last edited by kojacker; 2010-06-05 at 22:08.
 

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