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Originally Posted by aerobb
Say it loud!!
Who DOESN'T want to make money, raise their hand!
... Just what I thought
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Designing a theme takes a lot more than just being able to use a layout. Visuals and creativity are the biggest key components to making something people would actually consider spending money on.
Also of course we all want to make money, however, up until now I haven't felt like any of my themes warranted a price tag because they weren't nice enough.
Point is... while making money is nice - I like to be able to contribute free items to the theming community to get people inspired and raise the bar for what constitutes a theme worth paying for. I'm not bragging about anything I create but I found most themes for blackberry out there (and just about anything else that can be themed) to be very ugly. Even some of the stock themes for the Blackberry are embarassingly ugly. (O2 Theme maker I'm talking to you).
It's very unfortunate that there a lot of applications and devices out there that allow for different themes to be installed but the available themes are typically junk and look like they were thrown together in under an hour.
Until people move past the "I just changed the background picture and icon locations check out this new theme" mentallity showing new methods on how to create them is not going to hurt the pockets of a good theme developer.
Infact, a good theme developer shouldn't be overly concerned about this type of thing at all. To me the use of different templates is nice and opens up a few new options... but overall I find it mostly trivial and the least important part.