[maemo-developers] Why should I write apps for Maemo?

[From: Daniil Ivanov]

Hi Michael!

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> wrote:
> The continued delay of PR 1.2 has caused me to pose this question.
>
> Without customized packaging, I cannot reliably publish applications to the
> global maemo.org repositories at this time. Also having APIs in flux without
> knowing when the new version is coming out makes me even less interested.
> Sure, you can compile a new kernel or create a trivial application all day
> long and ship it today, but I wish to write some rather advanced
> applications that cover a broad range of APIs.
>
> At most, the SDK should have been released two weeks ahead of the final
> release. With a little over a month now on the clock, people can only begin
> to speculate as to how poor Nokia's release management is working. I, as a
> software developer, realize that unexpected issues can occur causing
> unexpected delays, so this e-mail is not a "Nokia hurry up" plea, but a
> concern that developing for Maemo requires a serious commitment to add
> checks for multiple versions of APIs and packaging requirements.
>
> If I relied on the ability to publish commercial applications to the Ovi
> Store, I'd be living in the street. It's been six months and the Ovi Store
> for Maemo is still without a commercial solution and is extremely limited in
> general.

  By commercial solution do you mean DRM?

Thanks, Daniil.

> In closing, I have a few questions to propose since communication from Nokia
> in general is hit or miss (some are better than others, I realize):
>
> -Why was the PR1.2 SDK released at the time it was released?
> -If there will be any updates >PR1.2, have there been discussions on
> changing the staged release of the SDK?
> -Is PR1.2 still going to be released? (I am not looking for a release date)
> -Where are those Ovi Store applications that we have been taunted with
> videos of?
> -Will there be a commercial solution with the Ovi Store or should I expect
> to create my own retail store?
>
> Michael
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