Found this video on Intomobile and it perfectly recreates the Ovi Store experience I had in the first few weeks of it’s launch.
I’ve wrote about how bad the Nokia Ovi Store is compared to the Apple App Store but now with the power of video I can share that experience with you.
Check out the consumer vs Ovi Store:
Nokia recently revealed the absolute ass-whooping the Ovi Store is receiving in comparison to the iPhone App Store.
The announcement at Nokia World confirmed that since May 26th, users have downloaded 10 million pieces of content from the Ovi Store. Compare this to iPhone App Store which surpassed 100 million downloads in the first two months and 1.5 billion after a year. The Ovi Store supports 100 Nokia devices and the iPhone App Store supports, wait for it…2.
Now remember ‘pieces of content’ doesn’t just mean apps but also lame things like ringtones, wallpapers, etc count too. I wonder how much of that 10 million is actual apps?
The Ovi Store had huge technical problems on the first day, Nokia underestimated the demand and consequently suffered outages meaning that for many people, it was over before it started.
The technical issues weren’t the only problems with the Ovi Store user experience. The Ovi Store requires the CRAZY backwards step of having to find, download and install the Ovi Store client before you can use it.
If I wasn’t a mobile phone enthusiast I would have given up on the Ovi Store the very first day it was launched. Apart from the Nokia server problems it took around 3 tries and 40 minutes to set up on my phone. The end result was a clunky and slow store with some poor quality applications that neither provided a good service or enhanced the handset. Read More
Mobile phones are becoming more and more tightly integrated with our online social lives, services such as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter can be accessed instantly on our handsets. However the majority of users use an app or their browser to keep updated with these sites.
The next step is full integration with the core functionality of your phone, by this I mean phone calls, contacts, text messaging and even the calendar, camera and music player.
For example, you probably have a large amount of your phone contacts on Facebook, many phones have the capability of adding a photo for your contact that appears when they call but how many people have a picture of all their friends on their phone? If your phone could sync with Facebook you could instantly grab everyone’s photo when they call.
Another example is your friends birthdays listed on Facebook, these could be synced with the calendar on your phone and so on.. Read More
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