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how to attract community

Posted May 10, 2012 14:55 UTC (Thu) by robbe (guest, #16131)
Parent article: TizenConf: Pitching HTML5 as a development framework

Maybe they should take a leaf out of Google's book and hand out cheap/gratis devices to developers. Samsung is squeezing out mobiles like crazy, so if there is anything non-vaporish to Tizen they should be able to fit it onto one of these.

Giving away ten thousand phones is probably small beer compared to the marketing money poured into Tizen already.

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how to attract community

Posted May 10, 2012 16:32 UTC (Thu) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976) [Link]

From the article:
> Samsung distributed mobile developer devices to registered attendees.

how to attract community

Posted May 12, 2012 20:08 UTC (Sat) by Tet (subscriber, #5433) [Link]

In brief, the Tizen community at the moment is small [...] But that is to be expected, she said, primarily because it is hard to build excitement about a platform before consumer devices are available

No, not really. I see it more a case of going from a good developer experience with Maemo to a good but different one with MeeGo, and then to a shitty one with Tizen. It's hard to build excitement about a platform where you're forcing developers down a route that doesn't make sense. Seriously. I have no interest in developing for a platform like that. HTML5 gives much hope for the web. But a mobile device is not the web, and trying to pretend it is because it's buzzword compliant is a terrible decision. You had two chances, and got it nearly right on both of them. You got it very wrong with the third one, and I'm not going to waste my time on it.

how to attract community

Posted May 17, 2012 8:52 UTC (Thu) by kragil (subscriber, #34373) [Link]

Exactly my thoughts.
The whole HTML apps story looks _very_ unfinished/shitty and Intel is just a lying, not trustworthy evil megacorp that has a long long history of f''k''g with people. Add to that "carrier interests" for "controlled app stores" BS and you have biggest crap you can imagine.
Compared to Intel and carriers Google is a pure saint of a company, although I don't like them.
This platform is so utterly dead long before it started, devs who invest in it are probably insane or non existent (atm it seems to be 100% the latter)