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Originally Posted by HumanPenguin View Post
Comment on insinctiv

Sorry i have not read the whole thread its late here and its long. So ignore me if someone has made a comments that overrides this one.

But as for the developers being told to not develop for maemo. I have to wonder how that was worded.

Given everything we have been told in the past from Nokia.
And assuming I had faith in their desire and ability to stick with it (currently I do not but would hope a Nokia employee dose)

If a developer asked me for advice on the Maemo development.

it would be at the moment you would be better of developing for Meego then once you have it ready for consumer use back port it to Maemo.

Everything we have been sold indicates this is what Nokia expects. Development in QT is supposed to make this very easy.

And if Nokia plans to go all out on Meego this will be the revenue source that allows you to profit from your app.

People in Nokia are prolly being told to encourage this sort of development strategy.

So on goes my wishful thinking hat.

"Looks like the communications company failed to communicate somewhere and Instinctiv got the wrong message."

Hat off.

"Time to get the pitch forks folks."
As I understand it to finish the project they had to spend around £6000 (from memory) on development time and Nokia indicated to them that they would not recover it, via the OVI store, as they would be insufficent customers to recoup their outlay. As usch they would be better waiting for Meego and the, hopefully, bigger customer base. However Nokia were unabel to give any indication as to when a Meego device would be brought to the market (recent commnets bt nokia suggest they intend waiting until meego is finished so it could well not be late 2011?). Not surprising rather than waste another £6000 the developers decided to wait until meego arrives.
 

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