When we Expect a Huge & reliable numbers of applications for N900 ?
Simple answer: Never.
Longer answer:
N900 and its Maemo5 operating system is already abandoned by Nokia and is pretty much dead.
Next device from Nokia, will have Maemo6 operating system which is:
a) very different from Maemo5
b) a dead-end of Maemo operating systems, because we already know it will be discontinued in favor of MeeGo
So... None in the right mind would start developing an application for already dead Maemo5.
And none in the right mind would start developing an application for Maemo6, knowing that it's targeted for death right after seeing the daylight.
They say that we should start developing applications for MeeGo, but no one knows how, because specification is work-in-progress and kept secret.
For me the answer is simple - move to Android.
I ordered Motorola Milestone yesterday.
Why are you attacking him like that he has a point a lot of demos and apps are out there to try and use mostly made by N900 users, but there's a little few of official releases. I agree with him. e.g. N900's OVI maps is not an opponent to N97's OVI maps and the new application nokia released not a log time ago for N97 "I don't know the name of the application" How the application works:
you take a picture of a known place and then you'll have a rout made to that place on you're map. Why that isn't on the N900 and it has a lot of power than the N97? And "Own Voice" (Free voice navigation from nokia) The N900 should be loaded with that feature from the manufacture, But oopsy daisy it isn't -_- . I really love my N900 its a great powerful devise but it deserves more from Nokia, especially a better App Store "App Manager".
Longer answer:
N900 and its Maemo5 operating system is already abandoned by Nokia and is pretty much dead.
Next device from Nokia, will have Maemo6 operating system which is:
a) very different from Maemo5
b) a dead-end of Maemo operating systems, because we already know it will be discontinued in favor of MeeGo
So... None in the right mind would start developing an application for already dead Maemo5.
And none in the right mind would start developing an application for Maemo6, knowing that it's targeted for death right after seeing the daylight.
They say that we should start developing applications for MeeGo, but no one knows how, because specification is work-in-progress and kept secret.
For me the answer is simple - move to Android.
I ordered Motorola Milestone yesterday.
Yep, they´ve sort of made it clear that they´re already planning to screw over the buyers of the Maemo 6 Harmattan device that´ll come out at the years end, just as they did with the N900, and the previous devices.
Today they talk about the whole new bright future of Harmattan coming this fall. At about the same time next year they´ll talk about the bright new future of their Meego 1.2 (or is it Meego 2) device that´ll come out at that time.
Seems the N9 will be just as half-assed as the N900.
Then, n900 is "step 4 of 6", right?
Pointing this because if anyone is "doing his research" right now, he could be blamed here in a few months when asking for Nokia support...
i am not talking about the repositories. I am talking about official release to Extras, Ovi & Maemo Select.
Extras IS the community repository. Maemo Select is a (neglected) unified web front-end to Ovi and Extras.
There are currently SEVERAL HUNDRED applications/new versions that are not available through Extras only because there users simply do not know how to give feedback (or simply find it easier to whine).
Extras IS the community repository. Maemo Select is a (neglected) unified web front-end to Ovi and Extras.
There are currently SEVERAL HUNDRED applications/new versions that are not available through Extras only because there users simply do not know how to give feedback (or simply find it easier to whine).
How is it "crap"? How would you like to make it better?
"Search" is your friend.
It was proposed hundred of times already - Thumbs Up/Down should be integrated in HAM.
AFAIR there is a Brainstorm proposal for this.
Nokia does not give a damn, so there was a separate app created for the previous (OS2008) rating system, but it's incompatible with the current voting system.
It's difficult to find the real application package name, then find it in package web interface, login (it does not remember you logged in) and vote.
