maemo.org - Talk - A serious push towards porting iPhone and Android apps to Qt

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Originally Posted by sdstrowes (Post 762467)

From a standards-nerd point of view, Facetime is actually really good news: http://youshottheinvisibleswordsman....pen-standards/

Given that Facetime is considerably more open than Skype, saying "no thanks" to Facetime is a bit short-sighted.

I'm all for supporting open standards. If Apple holds true to their word then I'm all for supporting Facetime.

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Originally Posted by bergie (Post 762490)

I find it interesting that most of the top applications are games. This seems to be the area where web apps really don't cut it. At least we already have the 1. best selling iPhone app: Angry Birds :D

I wonder how much work it took Rovio to port Angry Birds over (likewise for any of the developers porting iPhone games over to the N900). But what I find most interesting about Rovio is their different business strategies.

Charge 99 cents on the Apple App store and give level packs updates for free (to keep them on the chart)

Give away the game free on the N900 but charge for additional level packs (and allow us to use custom levels :D). Now a killer feature would be to integrate the custom levels so they exist happily with the paid for levels. I'm happy to fork over another 1.99 whenever I see another Angry Birds level pack in the Ovi Store. Of course recent Ovi Store policies (redownloading up to 5 times may kill that if I can't figure out a better backup strategy).