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Nokia should enable third party developers to submit apps to ovi store.

11 Dec

Nokia should get its act in order if it seriously wants to compete with google & apple. One big thing that I dislike about Symbian and Maemo phones is the inability of independent developers to make money out of it. This is where apple has succeeded and might be one of the big reasons iphone has been so successful.

Take symbian, I can not even afford to get my applications signed for distribution[1], it adds up to 300 euros every year just for administration fees then further more money when you submit an application, and every times it is tested, which can easily cost you hundreds, this is just too much, sorry I am not buying.

For Maemo, well, there is no ovi store, yet! but what does it cost to install applications on the Nokia N900? so i did some searching and it seems[2] maemo uses the standard debian debs, and using debsign is enough and you don’t have to pay any one, much like android. So this would mean once the ovi store is launched for the N900, it could be a good option since Qt is now available for maemo as well. However the mentality of the average user of maemo will be that of a hacker and I am afraid they might not pay money unless the software is extremely good, in other words they are not idiots like most of the iphone users.

But since Symbian has the most install base Nokia should get more developers onboard by making it easier, it just costs too much right now.

The Maemo powered Nokia N900

http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Complete_Guide_To_Symbian_Signed

http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/Packaging%2C_Deploying_and_Distributing

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Idiotti!

23 Nov

Just look at these bunch of hypocrites : A storm is brewing at Best Buy. They have killed so many species to extinction ( whale, dolphins, tuna, etc etc … ) and yet they have problems with Muslim festival of Eid Al-Adha. May be they should stop eating meat as it does not grow on trees, you have to kill an animal to get meat, and USA might be the biggest consumer of meat.

This is just racism/hatred against Muslims.

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Apple hits back at Verizon in new iPhone ads (video) — Engadget

23 Nov

I often think that Apple’s marketing team or may be the whole Apple company are a bunch of gay guys who are always looking at the mirror. I am saying this because I am so pissed at Apple, my macbook the piece of shit broke down last week, the audio doesn’t work any more and its also coming apart. My sub 500$ acer was longer lasting than that 1000$ piece of crap.

Now they come up with this stupid shit: Apple hits back at Verizon in new iPhone ads (video) — Engadget. WTF ? my 100$ phone has been able to do that since 2006, bunch of idiots.

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Macintosh and Fanboys, a blind faith.

31 May

It seems that Apple and its fanboy have blind faith in themselves and every thing that Apple makes, they just dont want to admit that many of the products that they produce are idiotic and that there are many flaws in their environments, in their closed garden models.

For starters the mac keyboards dont have a home or end key, which is frustrating and if you dont admit it then you are just lying. Who came up with the idea of Home and End keys on a keyboard ? was it someone form Microsoft or did it exist before ? having to press two keys to get the action of home key wont cut it.

I never really thought much about the iphone app store and the tight control that apple has over developing applications for iphone or ipod until I applied for the apple developer program and it took too long for them to respond, they didnt reject me but i just got frustrated that I cant even develop an application for myself, for a device which i paid 230 f..ing euros for. So infact apple if they choose so can lock out a particular developer or company from writing applications for iphone, and with iphone market share growing so much i wonder if this is anti competetive behaviour, seeems like what Microsoft did with IE but atleast they didnt stop people from publishing applications for Windows. Apple is getting evil more and more, money makes people evil. Imagine what apple would be like if they had more then 2% of desktop computer market, that is very scary.

So this is a relgion now, apple, a blind faith.

*this is just an experiment to see how many visitors does an apple bashing post attract*

if you were here because of that apple bashing, please relax. go outside and take a walk, go to movies with your girlfriend or what ever, relax.

I dont care much about apple, microsoft or linux. i use them all.

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Firefox annoyance: #1 the user is stupid and ignorant

27 Sep

With firefox if I go to a https web page that has a bad or expired certificate then you are greeted with a set of annoying screens by firefox which only state one purpose, which is that you are stupid and you dont know what you are doing, and might as well stop using your brain.