Thread: bad news from nokia today
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attila77 is offline attila77
2010-09-12 , 07:30
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#38
Originally Posted by silvermountain View Post
I think one of the concerns, and often rightfully so, is that the end of an OS (no further support from the manufacturer) means that third-party developers of 'commercial grade' applications (and yes, there are of course some apps that are free and rivals commercial ones) will have no interest in updating and/or releasing products for the platform. That became evident really quickly for for instance the N810 and support of applications such as Skype.

For Maemo5 it will mean the same now. Games is a good example as high quality games (graphics, stable, etc) are very hard to get outside of the commercial, larger companies. There might well be Qt ports, community developments, etc but closed-source, commercial applications will now not come to any Maemo platform.
I'll ask again, in what way is it different from the situation before the OP's fateful phone call ? Sadly, it's not exactly like until now these 'commercial grade' developers were rushing to make Maemo versions of their apps. If they ever change their mind (with MeeGo and/or MeeGo-Harmattan devices), that will not be due to the status of the N900. New apps will be written with Qt anyway and Qt IS present AND being updated on the N900.

platform can deliver. For those people a discontinuation of a phone (and in this particular case - an OS at the same time) does
No, that is not correct. The OS is not said to be discontinued, even the original post says nothing about the OS. Unless you mean discontinued as in 'on one cloudy day in the distant future' in which case, of course, every OS will be discontinued...

indeed make it much less valuable. How many times can one really play Angry Birds and sit by and watch mainstream applications and games come to your iOS, Android platforms - and not feel left out?
The number of devices sold and state of the Ovi store has a far more profound effect on software vendors than device discontinuation. The original iPhone or Nokia N95, (and to pick a popular 2009 entry) HTC Hero got EOL-d a long time ago and people still write apps for them, even if it's far more difficult to do than it will be for MeeGo software to come to the N900.
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