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2009-08-14
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2009-08-14
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The NITs to this point haven't really been meant for mainstream audiences, so yeah.... you're going to have those issues.
Tell you what... the next application that stops being updated... you're going to be responsible for it. Oh, that's not fair? Well, it's not really fair to expect infinite support from the developer either if he's not interested in working on it anymore.
Programming ISN'T easy, so I don't understand the "take, take, take" attitude some users have. If you want program X to be updated and the programmer isn't interested in doing it anymore (because, as you said yourself, programming just isn't that easy), either learn how to do it yourself or find people that will. And if you won't bother doing that, you probably don't really need that update that badly after all, do you?
If you are getting bored with your tablet, it's most likely because you bought it to be excited for the updates and new features rather than... you know... USING it.
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2009-08-14
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I've said it before: the lone cowboy coding efforts are great for quick-and-dirty little apps that make something nicer or easier-- but they don't cut it for mainstream use. That requires TEAMS. Not necessarily teams of coders, but cross-functional teams that include some sort of official Maemo interface.
This is part of my proposed presentation for the Maemo Summit, which I will release whether I get sponsored to go or not. But not until October 10.
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2009-08-14
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2009-08-14
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I will find it very hard to believe that any device manufactured by a company like Nokia targets a market that will not generate a profit.
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2009-08-14
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The idea that a software needs to be always evolving with more and more enhancements and in a continuous development is a marketing trick. Programs can be a single tool that does a certain job and never changes much. Look at xchat for example. Conboy is an application I like much, and I don't expect to see any changes in it. What updates does Hex-a-hop need? Skype itself. It already calls. Great! No video... But that is not "our" fault.
Can you even speak Finnish so we can try to swear them in their native language?
If I had a program, and people gave me money because of that program, I would not feel and kind of obligation to continue development, perhaps even to fix bugs.
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2009-08-14
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2009-08-14
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Would I have preferred ONE application developed by company X and paid $25 bucks for it rather than four applications that ends up unfinished? Yes.
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2009-08-14
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There several reasons for the current state of the Maemo software and one of them is that currently the Maemo community is small.
Some years ago I followed the development of FreeDos. For a long time their COMMAND.COM didn't work properly. At some time the main developer of COMMAND.COM regretfully decided to abandon it. In result two people started to work simultaneously on COMMAND.COM and now it is much better than the proprietary versions in MS-DOS and DR-DOS.
Later the same thing happened to me. I have orphaned software that I have written and despite this this software is used on milions of computers and other people are improving it further even now.