Ovi? over more like

Never worked, never knew what it was supposed to be never had any user focused experience, just a big old waste of time and money, well done nokia!!!

Why bother?

The OVI app on my N97 is okay (it actually works pretty well and alot of cool stuff is free)...but most of my apps have been taken from that thar interweb because they get released there first then added to the store at a later date. I have no doubt in my mind that Orange will be at least a month behind the releases making their store useless.

Why bother indeed...

Having attended the Orange app store developer day, their app store:

i) its only containing app, not games - because games are not apps.

ii) its only going to have a maximum of 500 items in it - because 100,000 is too many - and yes this was questioned and very clearly restated. In fairness they did suggest 520 apps might not be out of the question. But no sensible answer if you had product 501/521...

iii) you have to deal with Orange - hope you like slow painful deaths

iv) it will contain brain games, because - ***** knows what logical reason.

v) brain games means only brain training games, not any other game type that might exercise your brain

vi) but its not going to contain games, only applications.

vii) Orange refuse to give any idea about the sort of reveune split - all that means is they will try and screw developers as much as they think they can get away with rather than being open/honest/forthright about it

I could go on for hours about how stupid the whole plan is but I imagine you get the picture....