Nokia’s app store “Ovi” is out
February 16th, 2009
Nokia today announced the opening of Ovi (Finnish word for door) - it’s version of the App Store. The first smart phone that can take advantage of the service is N97.
Developers can upload applications at publish.ovi.com. The revenue sharing system is identical to Apple’s 70%-30% split.
Ovi just lost *three weeks* of user data after a chat server’s cooling system failed: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/02/when_the_cloud.html?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL
Can’t really take a service like that very seriously…