Applications on Maemo
Some people are questioning Maemo as an application development platform. I claim that it is one of Maemo's strong points going forward.
We have always had a strong and productive maemo.org community that builds very interesting stuff. Their work has been available for more advanced Maemo users already for some time. I claim that the depth and coolness of those apps and compos beats almost any other mobile platform. Maemo is open and as a true computer OS it allows developers to create really nice applications, widgets, and extensions. If you want to experience them just open disabled repositories or go directly to maemo.org.
And now, Ovi Store for Maemo applications has been open for a week or two. It is the official Nokia supported application store where developers can distribute their work. You should defenately check it out.
Angry Birds is one of the many applications you can install to your N900 from the Ovi Store. This is what the developers of that entertaining game say: " In the first week that Angry Birds has been on the Ovi Store, it has been downloaded almost as many times as the iPhone version in six weeks. Given that most N900 users have not even used Ovi Store yet, we are confident that there will be many more downloads in the months to come, and are sure that the N900 version will be very profitable."
I suggest you read the whole interview and go to the Ovi Store with your N900. Get your apps there, too. And have fun!
We have always had a strong and productive maemo.org community that builds very interesting stuff. Their work has been available for more advanced Maemo users already for some time. I claim that the depth and coolness of those apps and compos beats almost any other mobile platform. Maemo is open and as a true computer OS it allows developers to create really nice applications, widgets, and extensions. If you want to experience them just open disabled repositories or go directly to maemo.org.
And now, Ovi Store for Maemo applications has been open for a week or two. It is the official Nokia supported application store where developers can distribute their work. You should defenately check it out.
Angry Birds is one of the many applications you can install to your N900 from the Ovi Store. This is what the developers of that entertaining game say: " In the first week that Angry Birds has been on the Ovi Store, it has been downloaded almost as many times as the iPhone version in six weeks. Given that most N900 users have not even used Ovi Store yet, we are confident that there will be many more downloads in the months to come, and are sure that the N900 version will be very profitable."
I suggest you read the whole interview and go to the Ovi Store with your N900. Get your apps there, too. And have fun!
posted by Ari Jaaksi at 5:20 AM
18 Comments:
Nice words (as usual) Ari, but I would rather see some actions from Nokia.
It's quite hard to keep optimistic as a N900 user these days.
You mention the really cool AngryBirds game but yet there is still no level pack due to "technical problems".
Today Nokia announces free navigation in Ovi maps... Nice, but unfortunately it's flagship product N900 is left out (again).
How can you be promoting Maemo as the application platform of choice when even Nokia itself fails to deliver its own applications in time (or in sync with its other smartphones).
And don't get me started on sync options for the N900. Mac support? Sorry, not for you. Etc, etc.
Not very credible and quite disappointing.
I will not agree with you Mr Ari.
Maemo developer tools are based on not supported by anyone version of Debian ('etch'), Maemo autobuilder (which is official way to get applications for users) has lot of problems recently... There are even problems with newer version of SDK discussed on mailing list.
What made Angry Birds so big hit? Lack of other titles. When Ovi store finally opened for N900 there were no other new games of such quality there (Bounce evolution was available before). There are still no new games for that platform.
there are other games . and if y r right now it is the best time to get my apps on ovi. now that it is not yet too crowded ..........
zapp: apparently free navigation with Ovi maps will be available for the N900:
http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2010/01/21/nokia-n900-to-get-nokia-ovi-maps-free-navigation/
It's good to see progress, but developer barriers still need lowering. However, I remain optimistic that Qt will get where it needs to be soon.
Maemo as a platform is suffering because of uncertainty, not for the lack of users. You push out a wonderful device like the N900, then promptly announce that whatever we build now for immediate release will not survive the next OS iteration, because you'll switch to a completely different toolkit. A toolkit for which it will be harder to develop with Python (the real killer-app, for developers), because you couldn't agree on a price for the existing (reliable) bindings and had to build from scratch your own (inferior) version. That sucks.
If you are serious about Qt, you should push it in the next firmware update for N900, so that we can start selling apps to users right away. Otherwise, why should I pay to get my GTK application into Ovi when I know that I'l have to rewrite it from scratch in 6 months?
To get started with Maemo development, I ported one cute little game, BurgerSpace, currently in Extras. It was a very painful experience. You know how hard it is to keep your momentum going when to do something as simple as clicking a "thumbs up" icon on the website may take 30 minutes and then may not happen at all? Or your build fails over a dozen times, through no fault of your packaging but due to builder box errors? How many developers have you already lost due to this? Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, we hear...
I've spent my time with Maemo fighting infrastructure problems which I shouldn't have to face *at all*.
As someone pointed out on the maemo-devel mailing list, you couldn't take down the developer.android.com server if you tried. Maemo's goes down if you glance at it.
I hope you take a good look at this thread to see what problems the developer community is facing:
Howto destroy your community.
Thanks. I want Maemo to succeed, but for that to happen Nokia needs to immediately rectify the issues facing developers or we will simply leave.
-Jeff
Games!!! Really enjoyable for everyone to kill time. Fighting games might be more enjoyable among two or more players. Above all Computer Games are the best way to kill idle time.
Definitely N900 is letting down most of its users... it seem to be launched before it was ready due to Christmas season.
PR1.1 update didn't bring any relevant improvement regarding Ovi Services or Ovi Maps.
The lack of commitment was confirmed by the announcement of Ovi Maps free services without no official confirmation that N900 will get it. (Berto, the article concludes that N900 will get it, but actually Nokia just said that Maemo is on the roadmap, so they can launch it just for the next device with Maemo 6)
Mr. Ari, probably you are not allowed to confirm anything such if or when N900 will get Ovi Maps 3.0 and other services, but please tell your PR department that lack of information about this may irreversible kill most of the support Maemo are getting from its community!!
I imagine that software developers who watched the Ovi Maps press conference are also thinking twice if Maemo are worth to invest on, since Nokia itself is prioritizing Symbian devices and not even mentioning N900...
Well, let's take the Angry Bird example one step further. Supply and demand.
Count the number of games available to the iPhone.
Compare that to the number of games available to N900.
Anyone still wondering why Angry Brid get 6x downloads on N900 compared to on iPhone? I don't.
DISCLAIMER: N800 owner, really like Maemo, just want to keep the discussion anchored in reality.
I think that most developers waits that they can use QT to program mobile games both symbian and maemo platform. I know that you can now program with QT and it works very well, but you cannot sell it in OVI store. So your biggest problem is just now,that you cannot sell Qt software in OVI store. You should fix it very soon if you want to compete with android or other platforms.
Ofcource your developer tools are also awful. I hope that very soon maemo developing is totally integrated to the QTcreator. I mean that you don't anymore needs to compile software in scratchbox instead you can compile all in Qtcreator where scratchbox is integrated. I don't know is this possible to do, but I consumed two days time before I got my first application works in Maemo5 devises and all time went when I'm fighting with scratchbox and maemo5 sdk.
Talking of applications, is 'free navigation for all' offer of nokia going to be extended to N900? N97 and a bunch of other nokia phones already have this. What about the new flagship N900. Is your device getting free navigation soon?
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We are seriously considering developing a widget on both Maemo and MeeGo to allow our clients to access inouy professional groupware platform (http://www.inouy.net/) - plus I am a N800 (satisfied) user and about to purchase a N900.
Indeed, there is a lot to do with smartphones for collaborative work these days.
Thanks for these notices and comments, even though some problems still seem to be pending.
Well, dude as you said above: "I claim that the depth and coolness of those apps and compos beats almost any other mobile platform", and this is the only important thing in the text. I hope you can change the style, becuase turns so boring the reading line
people who said that don't have idea that Maemo is one of the best option in plataforms, definitely that people need some time to understand this.
I really hope someone ports OpenOffice to Maemo and gives it a nice Maemo UI, but that's a pretty big task.
indeed, the sea of analytical information. But it would not prevent a full-fledged search engine, because you just mountains of materials needed and the study
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