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2011-03-10 , 20:32
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Originally Posted by Qrchack View Post
@vi_ : well, maybe, but i just tried to look at the case from the nokia point of view

@MaddogG :
1. And by whom? By google? Who do You think was first, before big time developers smelled the money? Why the big D's invested time? Because of the community, who started with all those little do nothing apps.
2. OF COURSE it is about money. And here is the point: Average user in lets take... february 2010 looks on apps base and sees: Android: 10k apps (just guessing, but much more than maemo anyway) Maemo: 200 apps... HMMMM what to take? Android of course. Will he boy nokia? NO. Will Nokia earn money? NO. Will Nokia earn money from the partnership with M$? Dunno, But i can GUESS, that Microsoft can encourage bigger and smaller devs to write apps. Desperate step perhaps. Time will show.
3. I didn't say i want more. I have android market on NITDroid. I have extras-devel and testing. Me, You, and few others here would like to take a risk. Average customer would not. Averages see 600 apps. And 600 is to few for averages... AND for Nokia. Sorry
First:
Companies don't wait for a new platform to be fully finished and polished to start developing for it: look at MeeGo, it's clearly NOT finished, but there are already companies working on it. Why? For sure, not because of the huge number of community-made apps: I have a WeTab and its market is ridiculous atm. Companies started working on MeeGo because there is Intel (and Nokia...until the Elop-Day) behind it, and they started when the SDK was released, they didn't wait for the community to grow. This has nothing to do with MeeGo community. The same happened with Android. Google said "I will make a new os for smartphones!" and software companies said "Google&smartphones = $$$!" and they started developing for it asap. Intel, Nokia, Google, Apple: they are all winning horses, they all mean money. This is the reason why software houses started developing for iOs, Android, MeeGo. Why Maemo failed? Because Nokia stopped supporting it. Without a big name behind a product, this product will never sell, even if it's a very good one. This is, sadly, "The Truth"!

Second:
I don't care if Android and iOS have trillions of apps: I need only one music player, one video player, one file browser, one web browser...and I DON'T NEED A F*****G FARTING APPLICATION!
How many Android apps are really useful? How many of them are "well done"? How many of them are unique? We have less apps, this is true, but most of them are really good pieces of software and satisfy almost all our needs: this is the real important thing.

Third:
Originally Posted by Funklord View Post
it's just my opinion that 3rd party apps weren't a problem, but possibly some of the 1st party ones.
Originally Posted by casper27 View Post
@Qrchack
You can slate many things to do with the N900 but do not start on this community.
Qrchack, you are blaming a community (probably one of the best you will ever see on the net) that is doing what Nokia should have done, asking nothing in return. You blame people who are working for you, in their spare time, for free, and you didn't nothing to make Maemo better. Do you really think that is their duty to develop applications for free? This should be Nokia's duty, not theirs.

Two words: epic fail.
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Last edited by MaddogG; 2011-03-10 at 21:48.