Thread: no drm means no good apps?
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2010-07-01 , 10:17
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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
If good = not free
you're right!
That's why wikipedia sucks!
That's why the sun sucks!
That's why love sucks!
They are all free!!
This is completely disingenuous. The OP is talking about free and non free software on a mobile devices. You and the 6 people that thanked you need to get off their FOSS high horse and start thinking.

On the mobile platform I do believe that good apps take a lot of work to release. Lots of devs have the initial idea and motivation but then loose interest at the uat/deployment stage and fail to polish the apps - profit motive bridges this gap.

Until the mobile sphere develops much further, and we have polished applications like the equivalents of GIMP, Firefox, Apache, MySQL, etc floating around it's a pay software world out there.

Anyway, disagree with me if you like, but look at the facts. Comparing the App Store (heavily locked down), Andriod Store (pretty heavily locked down) and the Ovi Store (very few restrictions) and examine what's in them.
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Nokia are a business and have chosen a path of using the OSS community phenomenon to reduce their overheads specifically after sales support and development. Unlike Apple who do the opposite and make a killing from their Applications store.