Hi Robin > From: Robin Burchell <[email protected]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 01:06:03 +0100 > To: Barry Mavin <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo applications repository and appstore > > Hi Barry, > > Great to hear that you're looking to the future, and getting a head start :-). > > I have a few questions for you which will better shape the answers you're > after. > > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Barry Mavin <[email protected]> wrote: >> 1. How do developers such as ourselves submit a product to be included in >> the software repository and who is going to control application acceptance >> so it is not just filled up with junk. > > Is your application open (as in source, not just free)? Or is it > commercial? If it's commercial, then you will likely be reliant on an > app store of some kind, see answers to your next point. > The application, will most likely be free for personal use in MeeGo but will not be open sourced. It is a desktop database similar to the "bento" product available on mac, iphone and ipad, but with the programmability of Microsoft Visual Foxpro. It can sync data into the cloud or to a corporate server. The desktop editions for mac, windows and linux (our preferred platform) are commercial as is the server-side component (which is cluster aware handling HA with automatic failover). > >> 2. There has been talk of an "app store" like approach to MeeGo >> applications. Can somewhere point me in the right direction for information >> relating to this. This seems to be an important requirement in order to make >> it easy for users to aquire/download/install applications in a simple manner >> similar to the iphone/ipad. > > App stores will probably come in two varieties: third party ones (i.e. > random things like MeeGoApps.com as you mention..) and vendor-specific > stores, like Nokia's Ovi and Intel's AppUp. Requirements will vary > (obviously, with no central provider), but this also means you can > pick and choose to find the best fit for you when the time comes. > I have been looking at the "Garage" and wonder if that could be used more effectively for this type of product. Thoughts? > HTH, > > Robin Burchell > mob: +447702671419 > msn: [email protected] > irc: w00t @ irc.freenode.net > twr: http://twitter.com/w00teh > lac: http://identi.ca/w00t
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