I’ve now received my 20th near identical spam mail about “I recently bought a Samsung Wave S8500 with Samsung Bada OS when will your software be available for it”. I beginning to feel a deep dislike of the device and its OS. A word to the wise, If this is a guerilla marketing attempt, then it’s going badly wrong.
Researched it a little. It’s an initiative from a (supposedly) unofficial group of users that started in the Bada Spain forums.
Looks like they do some poll for “most wanted apps for bada”, then the winning (lol) app gets their developers’ forums/lists/whatever linked so they can flood them with porting requests.
http://www.badaspain.com/index.php?board=33.0
In the case of libreoffice they even posted the template you read (they got filtered in the case of google maps and skype, heh):
http://www.badaspain.com/index.php?topic=6171.0
One of the forum users told them not to lose their time contacting OpenOffice now that’s been forked, that’s why they are going for LibreOffice too now.
answer this: “If Samsung delivers a SDK for my OS of choice probably I will investigate if possible” (Bada SDK is Windows only)
“A word to the wise, If this is a guerilla marketing attempt, then it’s going badly wrong.”
Hmm, really? Now you know about Bada OS, and you just told all your blog readers about it.
Remember what they say about ‘bad publicity’.
Of course there’s bad publicity.
So this comes from badaspain.com
Bad ass pain commerce ?
i didnot mean that that url is mine
I actually have a Samsung s8500 right here, and personally, I think the best way to get more apps for it is if Samsung grows up and spends a bit of money to put Android on it instead of Bada.
it’s a fantastic piece of hardware, but the OS+GUI is crap and needs a /lot/ of work before it’s in anyway a competitor to iOS or Android.
apps-wise, though, I think the most important app for the S8500 would be a proper free ebook reader. of the 20 or so books available to download from their store, about 5 of them are Alice In Wonderland in different languages…
the day someone manages to port Android to the S8500 is the day I’m happy with the phone.