It's like July 2002 again. The Nokia 7650was just released and expectations for it were high - the first real smart phone! but-but- there were no applications to be seen...
This anomaly was corrected, eventually, and by the time 2004 swung around there was a healthy freeware community providing applications to compatible devices, as well as a whole slew of commercial applications capable of doing almost anything, in spite of the fact that each particular S60 device released was just a little different and required just a little tweaking.
Then came the S60 3rd Edition with exciting new features like WiFi. Of course, it also broke application compatiblity; this time almost completely (although arguably "security" is a pretty good reason for that, in this day and age.)
So, that lack-of-application malady which afflicted the Nokia 7650 so is back with a vengence. Things are getting better, with every passing day, but as a quick comparison shows that the difference is still stark.
At least now sites are starting to list S60 3rd Edition games in their own category... see my-symbian and the Symplification application and game stores...
[via Darla Mack and Tommi's S60 blog
