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Re: Why don't we get an App store?
« Reply #44 from previous page: April 08, 2010, 05:46:22 AM »
I remember when Gateway said we're not doing anymore Amiga development we're going Linux. I was a fencesitter on the idea. Except for Deluxe Paint there wasn't any function that couldn't be replaced acceptably by a PC. This was when you could only afford one system.

Nowadays you don't have to invest all your resources into one system. People with a laptop go and buy a netbook because they want something smaller. People with a games rig go and spend another $500 on a console.

Because we're now vying for control of someones 2nd, 3rd or more likely 3rd or 4th system the market is lot more promising.

If you're bitter about Amiga possibly because of time & money invested I suggest you take some time off. It lets you reassess what you like about Amiga.
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Re: Why don't we get an App store?
« Reply #45 on: April 08, 2010, 07:20:51 AM »
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About the last thing the Amiga needs is an "app store". Instead of encouraging more commercialisation - which in our case just means one more round of milking the few remaining enthusiasts - we should encourage more open source development.

And kill for all time any possibility of a commercial incentive to create Amiga&alike specific applications. There is no incentive now, no userbase, nothing that could entice a developer other than love for the platform. It is not outside the realm of possibility that this could change and a developer could make money from an Amiga&alike product. In an ideal world this should be the norm rather than the exception. It should be a goal worth striving for as it is the only way to advance the platform significantly. I am not a raving fanboy that believes Amiga will take over the world any time soon, but believe in a strategy that should improve the applications situation immensely.

Tell me, why shouldn't an Amiga developer make a buck, especially if they deserve it, in furthering the platform? The Apple app-store and its proliferation of apps is often seen as the yardstick of success against other mobile platforms. It has made the iPhone platform the success it is, and any such endeavour catering to Amiga&alike platforms in the same fashion, could likely do the same thing.

Indeed, I would be a proponent of an app-store that collects a fee, even on free software, giving the possibility for the user to assign that fee to a particular bounty. Money is the only thing that is going to take Amiga&alike software to the next level. If you want free software perhaps AROS is your best bet, but if you're running a commercial Amiga&alike system, then it stands to reason that you would be supportive of commercial quality software.

You want to encourage open-source application development, which is your perogative, but you know most of that is going to come from Linux, and if all you wanted was Linux apps, then I'm at a loss to explain why you'd be using an Amiga&alike. I am not against open source perse, rather the reliance on it for everything.
 

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Re: Why don't we get an App store?
« Reply #46 on: April 08, 2010, 07:22:44 AM »
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If you're bitter about Amiga possibly because of time & money invested I suggest you take some time off. It lets you reassess what you like about Amiga.


a good call indeed :)



I really don't think the idea of having an Amiga app store is to compete with the titans at Apple/M$


Its to support the Amiga, no matter what goes on outside!
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Re: Why don't we get an App store?
« Reply #47 on: April 08, 2010, 01:50:31 PM »
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And kill for all time any possibility of a commercial incentive to create Amiga&alike specific applications.

This incentive was killed nearly a decade ago.

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I am not a raving fanboy that believes Amiga will take over the world any time soon, but believe in a strategy that should improve the applications situation immensely.

I'm really looking forward to your explanation how a bunch of commercially motivated Amiga bedroom coders are going to take on the likes of OpenOffice, Firefox, GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Audacity or Avidemux.

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Tell me, why shouldn't an Amiga developer make a buck, especially if they deserve it, in furthering the platform?

If they're "furthering the platform" they sure deserve to make a buck. I just don't see any commercial development doing that. This thread was about games: do you think "Desert Racing" was furthering the platform? BOH? Word Me Up XXL?

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The Apple app-store and its proliferation of apps is often seen as the yardstick of success against other mobile platforms.

The keyword here is mobile platforms.

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but if you're running a commercial Amiga&alike system, then it stands to reason that you would be supportive of commercial quality software.

I'm supportive of good software, no matter what license is attached to it. AbiWord is good software. Give me a commercial Amiga word processor that is at least as good as AbiWord and I'll buy it. Problem is that this won't happen.
 

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Re: Why don't we get an App store?
« Reply #48 on: April 08, 2010, 02:05:59 PM »
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I'm really looking forward to your explanation how a bunch of commercially motivated Amiga bedroom coders are going to take on the likes of OpenOffice, Firefox, GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Audacity or Avidemux.



basement here!

Its about the Amiga, not the other stuff. :)
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