On Sep 19, 2010, at 6:48 AM, Bernd Stramm wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:12:50 +0100 > Graham Cobb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Saturday 18 September 2010 19:48:04 Skarpness, Mark wrote: >>> ... >>> We can add this to a >>> future version of compliance if everyone says "wow, that's great - >>> I really want this on my next device" > > IThis works against the very reason that an open software > approach is taken for efforts like MeeGo - the fast availability of a > wide variety of apps from a wide variety of providers. You are assuming that the only way this can happen is to use your technical approach...that is not the case. > > Some (very important) device manufacturers and phone/media service > providers rely on a closed market approach and can't change > realistically in the short term even if they want to. You are mixing "closed market" with "not using my preferred approach". It it absolutely possible to create an open application market with self-contained applications (in fact, from a business point of view, it is probably easier). > > But you can't just force the same business model on everybody. No you can't... > > Graham Cobb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Fine, but just delete the concept of "compliance" for apps altogether >> and replace it with what we really need -- a simple marketing concept >> which can be explained to both vendors and users but which does not >> imply that there is something bad about apps which don't meet the >> criteria. > > That sounds very doable. There is precedence for this sort of thing in > marketing - take the DVD movie industry with Full Screen and Wide > Screen versions. There could be Meego Full Compliance and MeeGo Wide > Compliance. Marketing professionals can find better terms for those, > I'm sure. And marketing of the companies supporting either one could > explain to their customers why each one is better than the other. > > Bernd > -- > Bernd Stramm > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
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