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2009-10-23
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I'm finding myself surrounded by people who are enthusiast to say the least; but they are not driven by Maemo, they are enthusiast about Android and the Jesus phone, despite a significant share of them being Linux developers. I've been trying to preach Maemo and "computer-on-your hand" concept to them, they are more interested to get SSH and VNC working on HTC Hero than contribuing to Maemo.
If you take a quick look on the web, see how many application spring up for Android, despite being just a year old. Maemo is now about 3 years old, and not getting a fraction of the attention Android does.
So my problems are::
- Why can't we get developers (in the "companies" sense) to get to create applications for Maemo ?
- Why isn't this program every's Linux developers wet dream ?
- Why aren't we projecting an interesting image like Android ? I don't want to be "hip and cool" as the iPhone users, but getting significant innovation under Maemo name is critical.
- Why are we so few ? I estimate the size of this community to about 2000 people, about which only 200 are really active.
- What can we do to ensure that the future is Nokia and not HTC ?
Let's find out why we're still sitting in a darkish corner and what do we need to do to get our heads above anyone else !
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2009-10-23
, 09:02
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2009-10-23
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@ Finland
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- Why can't we get developers (in the "companies" sense) to get to create applications for Maemo ?
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2009-10-23
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@ Somerville MA - USA
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2009-10-23
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Joined on Sep 2009
@ Somerville MA - USA
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So my problems are::
- Why can't we get developers (in the "companies" sense) to get to create applications for Maemo ?
- Why isn't this program every's Linux developers wet dream ?
- Why aren't we projecting an interesting image like Android ? I don't want to be "hip and cool" as the iPhone users, but getting significant innovation under Maemo name is critical.
- Why are we so few ? I estimate the size of this community to about 2000 people, about which only 200 are really active.
- What can we do to ensure that the future is Nokia and not HTC ?
Let's find out why we're still sitting in a darkish corner and what do we need to do to get our heads above anyone else !
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2009-10-23
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@ Bucuresti, Romania
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2009-10-23
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2009-10-23
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@ Hamburg, Germany
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2009-10-23
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@ Praha, Czech Republic
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For me there is no big difference ranging from the n800 to the n900 but in hardware.
One main reason for me wanting to won a n800 was the Skype function where i am still sick by the fact that until today there has been no software updates so that i can use the "send video" option.
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android, iphone, maemo, market share |
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If you take a quick look on the web, see how many application spring up for Android, despite being just a year old. Maemo is now about 3 years old, and not getting a fraction of the attention Android does.
So my problems are::
- Why can't we get developers (in the "companies" sense) to get to create applications for Maemo ?
- Why isn't this program every's Linux developers wet dream ?
- Why aren't we projecting an interesting image like Android ? I don't want to be "hip and cool" as the iPhone users, but getting significant innovation under Maemo name is critical.
- Why are we so few ? I estimate the size of this community to about 2000 people, about which only 200 are really active.
- What can we do to ensure that the future is Nokia and not HTC ?
Let's find out why we're still sitting in a darkish corner and what do we need to do to get our heads above anyone else !