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Originally Posted by romanianusa View Post
Wait...I thought this project is for fun? Like for example, you guys didn't even want to accept money before. How did it become serious? So what if Nokia doesn't support Maemo going forward....our journey continue on........lol.
We didn't want to charge people for a version we felt was still a beta. Once you take people's money there's an implicit promise that the app will work 100% as advertised -- and with your help we almost got to that point. We learned a lot from this forum about how to make better apps. You guys have been amazing.

Unfortunately, though, we still have to put this app on hold. When we started work on Maemo we didn't know that the platform would be discontinued and that it'd be a while before MeeGo would ship to replace it. That pause between Maemo and MeeGo means that the user base won't grow and that we'll have no short term opportunity to monetize this app. That's a deal breaker for us. Not only are there dev costs but there are server costs too, if you use the song identification feature, or the artwork fetcher for example. When MeeGo ships and if it takes off, we'll pick up right where we left off but until then we're going to focus our attention on other platforms that we can ship to a large, paying audience immediately.
 

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