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2009-11-05
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Good ratings systems might help.
You can't stop people writing poor quality or niche apps. Maybe you can filter the quality, but it'd be annoying to lose niche apps which are useful to a few people.
You can't stop people writing poor quality or niche apps. Maybe you can filter the quality, but it'd be annoying to lose niche apps which are useful to a few people.
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2009-11-05
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I have to agree that "a few hundred well-done apps are more useful" - though, we might all have a different set of a few hundred in mind (I don't bother with games on a phone/tablet - well, maybe chess).
But 100,000 gives bragging rights, and this is a marketing-fuled world, like it or not.
If I could get that health tracker I used on my N73/N75 from beta labs on the N900 I've on order, I would be happy. But that might not be of much interest to many.
So, perhaps to get a few hundred that meet a broad range of apps people regard as "good/well-done", you might need to have a library of a few thousand.
I agree that finding something among the chaff in Apple's app store is hard - but that's a categorization and search problem. A much easier problem to solve than inventory of applications.
I say this from the perspective of someone who has owned all three iPhones - and now own none.
But 100,000 gives bragging rights, and this is a marketing-fuled world, like it or not.
If I could get that health tracker I used on my N73/N75 from beta labs on the N900 I've on order, I would be happy. But that might not be of much interest to many.
So, perhaps to get a few hundred that meet a broad range of apps people regard as "good/well-done", you might need to have a library of a few thousand.
I agree that finding something among the chaff in Apple's app store is hard - but that's a categorization and search problem. A much easier problem to solve than inventory of applications.
I say this from the perspective of someone who has owned all three iPhones - and now own none.
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2009-11-05
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even a shotgun may hit bullseye from time to time...
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2009-11-05
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Can't help but to think that there could be less threads about apple...and more about maemo and the NITs it runs on.
And/or put posts like these in 'Alternatives' or whatever that sub-forum is called.
Last edited by Tintin; 2009-11-05 at 01:05.
And/or put posts like these in 'Alternatives' or whatever that sub-forum is called.
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2009-11-05
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Originally Posted by Tintin
The purpose was to show by analogy that Maemo doesn't need or want a huge app store if they merely go unused. Hence, it is very Maemo related since there has been a lot of criticism about Maemo (n900) not having enough apps.
Can't help but to think that there could be less threads about apple...and more about maemo and the NITs it runs on.
And/or put posts like these in 'Alternatives' or whatever that sub-forum is called.
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2009-11-05
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Speaking of OS's, some users said that the number of installations of Windows 7 has already exceeded the total number of installations of Mac OS's ever.
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2009-11-05
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I also find that finding any app in the Apple Store is hard. The top 25 categories kinda help. I think we need more maemo applications rated by users.
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2009-11-05
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Originally Posted by tso
Not from 100m away
even a shotgun may hit bullseye from time to time...
Sorry, I'm being facetious.
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2009-11-05
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Originally Posted by kjmackey
In that case we should just count every possible application that works on ARM in Linux. =P
But 100,000 gives bragging rights, and this is a marketing-fuled world, like it or not.
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They're maemo and MeeGo...
"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/18144...re_unused.html
A few hundred well done apps is much more useful to most users IMO.