About freaking time
http://nokiagadgets.com/2011/09/29/n...n-nokia-store/

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Wish I'd known that, sheesh.

Just some things that came up in my mind about: Nokia, Meego, Harmittan, WP7, Swipe UX and now finally with this Meltemi. I don't know if someone has had these thoughts before and might also written something similar somewhere, but I haven't read this from anywhere so I can't give any links - this is purely just my speculation.

If any of you have better knowledge please correct me.

1. Nokia and Intel had contract of creating open mobile OS - Meego. At some point someone at Nokia’s Meego team had great innovation about new way to use mobile phone - Swipe. Nokia found out very soon that this might be a "Golden egg" for mobile systems and this just could not be shared with other manufacturers within open source Meego UX (too valuable). They had to use their own Harmittan and close this into Swipe UX. This is where Nokia and Intel had to go separite way -> no open source swipe.

2. Microsoft has promised that Nokia could use Swipe UX in WP7 exclusively - so they got in bed together. This might not have been possible if they would have picked Android OS.

3. Now they've seen that WP7 can't perform well enough in low end phones (hardware using WP7 is too expensive for featurephones) they have to downgrade maemo/meego/harmittan to Meltimi which can perform better with cheaper hardware. They have most of code ready, they have swipe ready, they have marketplace, they have QT, Harmitan running great with old hardware... This meltimi name might be also because they just can't use Meego name after withdrawing from contract with Intel. This might be reason why Intel also has to rename their Meego into Tizen.

holy cr*p, who in the world would want the thousand "apps" in this list rather than the few in the extra repo??
I'm so not regretting having lived outside an "ecosystem" with the n900..

The Ilmatar name existed long before Meego came around. But I guess that today it would be based on Meego or if it's Tizen now.

You're best-off searching without out that url trickery, now that it's not needed.

There is some goodies there IMO...
There's also many which still aren't up yet, or won't ever be accessible there.
It's a bit too early to say they're all fart apps.
If you're trying to compare it to iOS or Android, you're fighting a losing battle.

I wonder how n9-apps.com is going now?

I'm not saying they are all fart apps, but I'm just not interested either in wagamama apps, free apps to contact a company, flashlight apps that just display a white screen with some ads, a copter game with some ads, an app that pretend to scan your fingerprint for unlock the phone but just count the number of seconds (so your password is a integer between 1 and 5), etc... (all from what I saw on the first page)

They are not fart apps, and many people might find them usefull or funny. But for me, they just makes it harder to find the high quality programs that I'm sure are still numerous.

(obviously this is the same for any other platform, as you cannot be considered a serious os without having 100,000+ apps, no matter what they are)

Same for any store, just sort the gems from the crap.
Much smaller store, so much smaller amt of gems, of course.

Can this thing called the N9 actually make phone calls ?

Shameless plug:



http://store.ovi.com/content/205764

not sure already posted but this list of apps is worth getting excited for

http://nokiagadgets.com/?cat=265