DISQUS

Kip Hakes · 6 months ago

I'm for one not massively impressed with it. The app is pretty lame and just feels like some poor widget. We want a proper whizzy app - ala Gravity, not some half baked website. After all this time it's not a massive improvement over Download! The Apple App Store will be kicking the ass of Ovi Store for sometime to come methinks.

Kip

Ew4n · 6 months ago

The key measure is whether you start downloading more apps and content
than you did before. Can you see that happening, Kip, or is it too
unwieldy?

Alex Kerr · 6 months ago

I'd say the other key measure is whether as a developer you can make more or similar money off the Nokia Ovi store than you can off the iPhone store. This is THE key fact that decides where as a developer you put your resources - indeed where all developers who are not led by emotions or subjective opinion, put their resources.

Kip's opinion aside from being highly subjective (perhaps he has invested heavily in iPhone development?) ignores the fact that Ovi store will offer vastly vastly vastly (vastly) more potential buyers than iPhone store EVER will (even on S60, but especially with S40 too). Now I'm inclined actually to agree with Kip's implication that Ovi store is currently significantly less good than iPhone store. Cool, fair enough. But you need to offset that, and the point you make Ewan, against first consumer numbers, and secondly the wider range of content you can produce and sell, including the different languages you can develop in for Ovi store. All of this factors into the equation "does it make sense for me as a developer to put my resources into a.) iPhone store or b.) Ovi store?"