Brilliant Idea!

No, since the "Updates category" would get removed.

The current proposal:

But which system should we use to spread them and how to avoid anger?
I tought already the past days about this problem since someone could say later "If I had known..." - a fixed system is always better since everybody will know how it works and what to win in the end.

We have 25 devices to spread, right?

Categorie 8 would get removed, categorie 9 and 10 are already participating in Categorie 1-7.

So, what about this:

We divide the bounty into 16 shares.

Then we run the main categories as two competitions - the updated from the new apps seperated:

Competition 1: NEW APPLICATIONS:
1a. Business & Office
2a. Games
3a. Graphics & Multimedia
4a. Location & Navigation
5a. Network & Communication
6a. Others
7a. System & Utilities

1st Prize: N950
2nd Prize: N9
3rd Prize: Bounty share

Competition 2: UPDATES TO EXISTING APPLICATIONS:
1b. Business & Office
2b. Games
3b. Graphics & Multimedia
4b. Location & Navigation
5b. Network & Communication
6b. Others
7b. System & Utilities

1st Prize: N9
2nd Prize: Bounty share
3rd Prize: "thanks for participating"

Bonus Competition Beginner-Award

8. Beginner-Award (one from any category)

1st Prize: N950 (and I read somewhere kojacker would donate again a book?)
2nd Prize: N950
3rd Prize: Bounty share

Bonus Competition Multi-Platform-Award
9. Multi-Platform-Award (one from any category)

1st Prize: N950
2nd Prize: N9
3rd Prize: Bounty share

10 x N950, 15 x N9. In total 25 devices, am I right?

Rule: If someone from the Bonus Competitions (Beginner-Award or Multi-Platform-Award) has already won a device in the Main Competition 1 or 2 he will get excluded with every other app he has submitted from the Bonus Competitions. The votes to his submissions won't get evaluated will get evaluated but will get ignored and we will overide it in the results. The Prizes will get in this case distributed to the next guys in the ranking.
If a beginner is already good enought to win the 1st or 2nd seat in the main categorie he is not a beginner. And the updated app is in this case are also already enought appreciated.

If I remember correctly we had the last time enought for a place 3 to 5 bounty share. So we should get hopefully enought for 16 bounty shares. Since we prefer new applications there will be only prizes for the best 2 updated apps in each category. Only devices. No Bounty.
If we collect more than a certain level of Money we could spread the Bounty across place 3 and 4. How hight should we set this limit? Hm, what about US$ 1500 ?
So the 3rd Place will not get higher than US$100, unless we collect more than $3000...

This sounds to me a lot better compared to the current proposal.
We are honoring with this system updates to existing apps, we are prefering totally new submissions and we are trying to avoid multi-device-winners.

My old proposal to appreciate apps which get ported from the N900 to the N9 during this competition was rejected or were forgotten. They could find a new home at the "Updates to existing applications" section. So developers, brush the dust off from your floppy disks and hunt down your old code. There is a Nokia N9 waiting for you. (If my proposal gets finally accepted by everyone)