Originally Posted by kojacker

I hope that's not how my post came across to you, as that's not what I meant in any case. But there does need to be a reliazation of the state of play with this device. That part of my post was more to garner interest in those who would be interested in starting developing.


Nobody is expecting more from you individually, but if you mean to have a successful app store? Then the honest answer is, frankly, no. It's not enough. Not on it's own atleast.

To make a successful application store you need more than that. You need a large potential customer base of people like you and me who are happy to pay for quality apps, in order to get the developers interested. Then you need good development tools and resources available for the developers to work with. You also need a good quality app store with payment system. Along with that you need good marketing a bit of the x-factor to set it off. And all that gets buyers interested and starts the cycle off again..

Nokia were far too slow with Qt 4.6 sdk and pr 1.2, the Ovi store is a mess, poor marketing, you name it.. it hasn't been very successful to date. Hopefully lessons will be learned and carried forward, but it'll come too late for the n900. However the Symbian side is a lot better, in hindsight perhaps we'll see much of this wasn't really in the plan for the n900 - goals rather than necessities.

Originally Posted by DanielW

Could someone close this thread?

I think too many people here crossed the line.

Do you really not realize that it's not Nokia who has to develop that lots of what ever software you are so much crying for?

Quite funny how like 20 disapointed guys took over that board, somehow believing they speak for the majority of happy n900 users?

Originally Posted by DanielW

Justice a big word. Do you really think that peeing Nokias employers in the face has anything to do with justice? You totaly lost it.

There isn't much (commercial!) software for the N900 because there aren't that much sold N900. If you were a software developer, would you but big money in developing software for a device with that few users? So get over it.

Or if you really want do something good: Go to the big software developers and cry there and make them believe that there is indeed a big market for software for the N900! You said "bad" (in other words) Angry Birds, it may not be yours but it is one of the most success full games for the iPhone. So be glad that Rovio ported it. Buying it could be one way to show that there is a market. Crying in a community forum at Nokia, who are not responsible for developing 3rd party games, won't do anything.

There is lots of free software partly of high quality, but don't expect that much more.

Really, consider selling your N900 now when you will still get quite something for it, and get a device which already has lots of games, simply because they sold lots of devices.

Originally Posted by sophocha

Even Droid is getting an unofficial release of Froyo....and Nokia is still struggling with Ovi Store......no comment

Originally Posted by atilla

damn you right dude lets start a big ****in mob.we should all fly to finland to the nokia headquarters and **** them straight in front of there building.whos with that????

Originally Posted by mobiledivide

Its saturday night so I'm assuming people have been drinking, that's the only way to explain this thread.smh

Originally Posted by slender

Welcome to ovi store:
Amazing new apps and games and and..

Originally Posted by Crashdamage

.................SNIP.............you simply don't understand what the whole concept of the N900/Maemo/MeeGo is really all about or who and what it's intended for................SNIP............. Those owners who do 'get it' are very satisfied indeed.

Hint: State-of-the-art pocket computers are not primarily about games or MMS.