Thread: Jailbreaking the n900
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2010-09-18 , 10:15
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
As long as people think freely pirating apps/games are ok, then commercial developers will resort to DRM to protect their assets/potential revenues.

A platform without DRM won't attract those developers. (see: N900)

A platform without sizeable commercial 3rd party support isn't financially viable. (ie: not commercially successful).

Nokia wants to make a commercially successful platform/products.



... so, if you string those elements up ....

it's inevitable.
That doesn't make much sense to me, since DRM has been largely unsuccessful as a means of preventing piracy. It's been very successful as a means of annoying paying customers, though.

I'm sure the lack of commercial applications on the N900 is due to the smaller size of the market. I don't care much either way. I prefer the community software on the N900 to the largely useless 'apps' in the Android marketplace.