Hello!
It seems that in your mind, each vendor will provide their own app
store,
it will be the very common case where the vendor will decide which of
the various app stores he will use.
appstores are 'the thing' nowadays, and Nokia and Intel each have their
own already.... I wouldn't be surprised if
others either do their own completely, or syndicate an existing one but
with their own control.
> now MeeGo extras is a great idea, and I can't wait to see all those
> MeeGo Touch Framework apps show up and be available for the meego.com
> users.
> But to be honest, I somewhat doubt that hardware vendors or the
> operators will think more than a few seconds and just not enable it,
> even if they were to take the OS nearly directly from meego.com
My comments regarding AppStores:
* The central AppStore that Apple offers likely sounds good to a
provider (control, central, big) but what I read from the press is that
besides the political aspects the Apple AppStore is neither safe nor
secure. Apple is likely only doing automated scans of the software so
"bad" software did get through and likely a lot of softare that crashes
also gets through. So the application in the Apple appstore are not
better than the apps in the maemo repositories because the Apple app
store is save or Apple is doing fancy checks on the software. There are
likely others reasons for that, some of them are related to critical
masses of apps, users and users.
* Fragmented app stores on the other hand have marketing problems
because they are simply smaller and quality is poor (seems like that
sometimes is the case with Adroid app stores, having a natial app store
version already has negative influence). App stores in this case start
to be a burdon for the provider not a feature.
Conclusion: app stores are very new and everybody tries to immitate the
currently successful model, but this model has its defiencies , too,
and it is possible that providers opinion will change and there will be
room for other solutions, that are centralized, of high quality and have
very low entry barrier. Thus we should not get too influenced by the
current situation but strongly sell our vision als alternative and
better aproach.
If we are not talking about phone, things might be different (cars, TVs)
since Apple and Android have not app stor yet and thus the starting
sutuation is different.
--
Gruß...
Tim
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