Thread: [Maemo 5] We need more apps! Why aren't there more applications in Ovi Store and Extras?
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2010-07-16 , 19:50
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Originally Posted by amebes View Post
We're on the same page dude! I don't see why a developer would bother writing, or even porting, an app for a phone that undergoes a relatively minute amount of marketing to a wider audience, is niche with a relatively small userbase and is (hardly) supported by a manufacturer that appears to be giving up after a string of failed handsets.
No, I think we're on as completely different pages as there are...

Like I said, only the money part is really Nokia's fault (thus the correction from LM), while with your post you're actually further strengthening the other two problems.

Above all, there are NOT too few users out there. This is quite the large community for a niche product, and there are lots of people asking for certain application, with even more people signing those pleads.

The problem is that potentially new developers are thrown off by all this talk about "niche" and "relatively small userbase". All of you make it sound like the maemo community consisted of a mere hundred people - and very few develops would consider writing for such a small userbase.

But the userbase is NOT this small, and maemo is NOT stillborn - writing for maemo means reaching a lot of people, with an application that will NOT stay unrecognised between hundreds of fart apps surrounding it. Maemo is a big chance for every developer to get something meaningful out there - but very few realise that, because they're intimitaded by all this highly negative talk here in the forums!