It's already ad-free, it's tax-funded. IIRC the mandate they're operating under prohibits them from including ads (although they've found a loophole, so some of sports broadcasts are preceeded by "this programme is presented by "). All in all by doing this, they're providing a better service for me, the tax-payer.

What makes apt and rpm repositories so great is not that they contain loads of software, but that the software packages depend on each other so that each package contains as little as possible. In contrast, most Windows applocations are self-sufficient. If it requires external libraries, those will be bundled with the installer.

To make a functional package repository, you'd have to first build the supporting libraries all those programs use, then build all the programs and create dependencies. As this is counter to the current windows philosophy, you'll likely have to change the build scripts of all the programs involved. Good luck.

If you are going with the binary approach (basically creating a more managed download.com), be sure to fully support NSIS installers. The NSIS installer is by far the best installer out there for open source projects, and also one of the more popular ones.

Agreed that the gaming-experience are much more fun and enjoyable on consoles or computers. Consoles are after all designed with a good gaming-experience in mind (at least to some extent). The regular cell-phone isn't designed to be a gaming-platform, it's mostly a phone. The exception may be nokias N-gage, tho I don't have any personal experience with it.

I am however guilty of playing some of my cell-phone-games, when I have nothing better to do, and nothing at all available to fiddle with. While i.e. forgetting to bring something to read while taking a dump or sitting on a bus.

I don't think mobile-phone-games will be a good "replacement" for console-gaming or pc-gaming anytime soon, but they serve their purposes.

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Kjetil Joergensen