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Re:QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's... by tdeck on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:05PM (#42083708)
I remember getting some LG phone in maybe 2007 and being excited because I read you could write 3rd party apps and games for it. Then I tried reading the BREW developer docs and trying the emulator, which were both abysmal. Then I read that just to try an app on my phone I would need to pay hundreds of dollars (IIRC it was $400) to get it signed.

That totally killed my desire to develop for my flip phone.

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Re:QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's... by mikepurvis on Thursday November 07, 2024 @11:28PM (#42084138)
It's crazy to think that that's an ecosystem where paying a dollar or more for a ringtone had been normalized.
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Re:QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's... by ethbr1 on Thursday November 07, 2024 @11:49PM (#42084256)
If you look up the music industy revenue source breakdowns by year, there was a time when ringtone revenue represented 10%.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/music-industry-revenues-by-...

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