On 10 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What's amazing to me is that someone in charge at Nokia thinks that > independant developers are going to flock to develop a market-creating > software ecosystem for a $400-$500 half-open platform, especially in > light of Apple's recent announcement of the iPhone -- a $500 half-open > platform which presumably will ship with Apple-provided "killer apps," > no magic market creation required.
Well, obviously there will be 500 such developers now :) I just think it should have been 1500 happy users with $100 discounts instead of 500 happy developers with $300 discounts. > In short, I think that fully opening the platform (both n770 and n880) > now is the only way Nokia's going to be able to compete when the > iPhone comes out in 5 or 6 months. You are basing this on the potential impact of an unreleased device? Never mind that the 770/N800 is not a phone, and doesn't require a 2-year Cingular contract as the iPhone will in addition to its $500 price. I agree with the sentiment, but the reasoning doesn't support it IMHO. Ted _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
