I agree with the comments about an app store. Nokia's effort is pretty pathetic and we're left with the sharks at Handango.

A recent quote, though, summed things up for me. Ewan Spence, of All About Symbian, said something along the lines of it being a bit like WW2. The yanks come on board late, make out that they invented smartphones, insist on doing things their way, and will probably come out the other end making a handsome profit. It's as if Dunkirk, El Alamein, and the Battle of Kirsk never happened. Only Midway, Okinawa, and the Battle of the Bulge have any significance and everything else can be forgotten. I never really understood why my parents, who lived through the war, hate the yanks so much, but I'm starting to get a slight flavour of it.

As a European dead set on supporting European companies (why i buy Nokia) along with the fact they can do a lot more than a iPhone can, why are Nokia succeeding to America, they have the lowly CDMA system and not much GSM, if Nokia sell out like this i will be walking.

Why don't Nokia just stop messing around, merge the Music/Downloads/Software downloads/stores into one place, this will KILL iPhone app store, make it downloadable over the air and you have yourself a killer store.

Neil Hoskins- read James Anderson's post. The americans arent taking credit for something thats already been done, they are finally giving the customer want they fully want instead of hyping a very incomplete and botched up mobile platform. Apple started it all by showing that a handheld can do almost anything a PC can do. Nokia has never done anything except dish out crap enterprise apps and completely ignore the common user who wants to use their phone for things like web surfing and live messaging. I'll bet you anything that Nokia wont even try to fix Symbian and will drop on the mobile Linux bandwagon with their maemo.org offering.