The presentation that I had hoped to show at the maemo summit has been declined. I hope someone can take the idea and make something better out of it - so here's the abstract:
Attracting the Masses
- Intended audience: Developers - but other parties may be interested
- Abstract/description
- Tablets have hundreds of applications now - but who are they for? If the Internet Tablets are intended to attract a more mainstream mobile market, the maemo community needs to get in touch with the needs of the target market.
- The first part of this presentation will give an overview of the most popular applications on competing platforms. This information will be collected through app store sales/download counts, direct communication with a sampling of mobile consumers, and communication with some other high-profile mobile technology journalists. This will include actual applications, connectivity options, peripherals, interface (touch/keyboard/icon/etc) preferences, and related consumer desires.
- The second part of this presentation will give an overview of the state of the existing maemoplatform including commercial partners, independent contributors, and ports of more popular Linux software.
- The conclusion will analyze mobile consumer desires compared to maemo offerings and, hopefully, give developers ideas on what they can write to make the platform more appealing.
The feedback from the Dave, Jamie, and Valerio is (in part) as follows:
Thanks for your submission for the Maemo summit, we appreciate the effort.
However, we don't think the content is compelling enough for the summit
as is. And certainly "reaching the masses" will be covered by Nokia
during the Nokia day. So we are sorry to inform you that we are not
accepting the presentation.
Since I'm more of a "put the tablets in others' hands and get a reaction" type and not a "developer" type, I figured that's the only topic on which I am qualified to talk. I'm open to ideas, though. I'm still looking forward to seeing what comes out of the summit.
3 comments:
I strongly suspect that the Nokia presentations will not cover this. Too bad.
Make it anyway, and post it on slideshare and blog about it. Find a Mobile Monday group to give it to or something.
this is not a problem for the tablet alone, Nokia has done a really poor job with their own ovi platform.
I just finished doing an study for mobile platforms and by far Nokia is the one lagging behind, and ironically is the one with the bigger user base.
I've owned my n800 for over 2 years now and to be honest there is not that much compelling stuff in it other than skype and the browser.
where is the rest I ask myself everytime I keep going to maemo's website looking for something cool.
my ipod touch is my mobile platform of choice as of now, as much as I am even developing for it.
nokia has done a really poor job supporting their market and trying to bring more and more to it.
I hope you can get your message out to the community and hope for nokia to be picking the ball from where they left it drop.
Daniel, this is ironic in general and upsetting to me. If anything your presentation *should* be the most compelling of all. You are trying to elevate discussion to where it is most relevant to the general audience, something Nokia has consistently failed to do (with small individual exceptions such as myself).
You might enjoy my take on the subject:
http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/its-a-cool-looking-device-but-what-does-it-do/
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