ext John Holmblad wrote: > Quim, > > are you really serious with your comment > > "My advice to commercial developers is to make a step in the Maemo > platform, learn and have fun with it." ?
I think this is the most sensible approach, yes. If you have a better advice for commercial developers in Maemo please share it. > Do you and Nokia really believe that in today's market environment > software development businesses have the luxury of "having fun". > > I think not. I can't speak for Nokia about this topic, but my personal opinion is that there is always a chance to try and learn something new and have fun with it. In fact, many economists say that learning and having fun with new things is an essential part of a business sustainability. > I think their focus has to be and will be on creating applications > that produce cash flow fast, that is, in timeframes measured in > months, not years. Agreed. Since the Maemo platform nowadays hasn't got the volumes or the business infrastructure to produce cash flow fast by licensing software, I think my advice quoted above is correct. One exception that could bring you cash flow (if succeeding) would be to get a deal in the Forum Nokia context, which was also part of my advice in the same paragraph: >> Getting >> yourselves introduced to Forum Nokia might help you having some >> business even before. > Nokia may have the luxury of supporting negative > cash flow while it invests in and tweaks and has fun with a new > hardware platform over a period of several years but software > development shops, most of whom are innovative and small businesses > do not have the luxury of such time. Agreed. And this is why Nokia is not trying to convince commercial developers to set up a business on top of Maemo nowadays. Perhaps one day this will change, and that day commercial developers will notice. -- Quim Gil open source advocate Maemo Software @ Nokia _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
