Where's the fail whale when you need it, right? Early yesterday morning, Nokia
flipped the switch on its
Ovi Store, claiming that it's app market would potentially reach some 50 million users around the world. Unfortunately for Nokia, it seems as if all 50 million attempted to check things out at the same time. Web-wide, users were griping that things just weren't working out, and we're not talking about small packets of flustered users. In fact, Nokia was forced to admit that "shortly after launching, it began experiencing extraordinarily high spikes of traffic that resulted in some performance issues," and judging by reactions, we'd say "some" is now a front-runner for understatement of the year. Have things smoothed over for you today? Are you even bothering to check?
Update: Nokia has
apologized for the gaff and has reportedly added server capacity to handle the demand. Question is: is the fix working?
posted May 27th 2009 12:43PM
Will it sell billion apps in 9 months like iPhone did?
stevie jobs bought most of them anyway so ummm No.
Probably yes.
I haven't been able to log in on my 5800. Sorry try again later. I can log in on my pc, but I don't get a working download link. oh well.
Tried it out yesterday, again. After registration problems, finally managed to get to the settings page, and it has my phone (an E61i) as some Comes With Music model. Click on the change button. Nothing.
Not too concerned, though. Doesn't sound like there's much of anything there that a US-locked cellphone user can actually use.
Sad. Really.
FYI, Ovi means "Door" in Finnish. It's not just a random made up word...
So, out of respect, I should really stop calling it the Ovary Store then...
And all this time I thought it was plural for 'ovum!'
Someone gave me and E71 and this stupid store doesn't work on it so I am going to smash it to fuckin smithereens right now. look for the yt vid soon...........
Once again I made right decision
When choosing iPhone over nokia n series,.
2 years ago.agree?
YOU FAIL @ HAIKU.
Dont get me wrong.. i love nokia phones and adore my n95.. cant wait for n97..
but APP wise... jesus it cant get close to the iphone..
There is a huge lack of apps.. Where are the social apps like myspace/facebook.
How about an official aim and not some 3rd party?
U r 100% correct nokia has been schooled by iPhone !
Nokia had and still has a huge customer base for smartphones. Yet it is (little over exaggeratedly) a completely forgotten platform for developers. Right now everyone is focused on the iPhone. Nokia could've done the same thing five or six years ago but they just didn't get it.
Rather than spend time and money creating a user friendly, attractive, sexy mobile platform that lures developers to create mobile software they went on a crazy buying rant that lasted from 2005 to 2008. The whole affair culminated when they bought Navteq for eight billion dollars.
So they spent billions of dollars trying to gather services and software that would later be distributed to their customers by Nokia itself. The bad thing is that just doesn't work. You can't decide what people want on their smartphones. Many of the Internet based companies that Nokia spent millions to buy have been effectively dead ever since and they didn't do a damn thing for Nokia. The whole Ovi portal that was compiled from all these companies that Nokia bought is just a big pile of nothing. How many people I know use it? NONE.
Right now, almost two years after they'd burned most of their cash assets and ended what seems to be their biggest and by far their mostly costly mistake ever they're back at square one. Now they're trying to create a platform and a store that would do what iPhone and app store did to Apple. It's incredible they didn't figure it out ages ago.
@guru
It's fun knowing that Sony makes more money than apple.
@Monkey, it is important get your facts straight. For the whole **year** ending March 2009, Sony made an after-tax loss of $1.1 billion. For **just the quarter** ending March 2009, Apple made a profit of $1.2 billion.
@roole
I was just stating a stupid comment for dudu. And i was not talking about just last year I'am talking in whole, Sony movies, music, games, computers, tv, blu-rays and more. Sony make way more money than apple even if they lose a little bit.
It worked fine for me - I signed up, created the new user name and all that stuff, browsed for programs, downloaded a free game. Only problem I had was that the game sucked and it crashed my phone and I had to pull the battery out - just like one of the reviewers said it would.
Haven't had huge problems with Ovi Store and if I have, now it's working like a charm.
how sad when iPod touch has more apps than entire nokia phones put together.,.
How cool it is when Sony's ps1 has more games than apple ipod touch today.
Actually, the Symbian platform has more applications than the iTunes App Store has. You don't realize that the Ovi Store contains a very small proportion of the millions of Symbian Apps out there on the web.
opening day was a joke, but isn't it always?
Now all is working fine with the exception of all the apps being complete crap & the games are a joke and don't work. What I expected really from Nokia and i'm an S60 / Nokia fan! Also I don't like the UI, (on the 5800 screen), it's nowhere near as nice and smooth an experience as it is on the Jesus phone.
Also some of the apps are REALLY expensive (should be a price cap) - Nope, I don't see this as ever becoming any sort of financial success. But it will make it easier to hunt down specific apps.
Also what's with saying 'free' app, only to find it's a 14 day trial? Really pisses me off. Nice starter for 10 though.
almost all Iphone apps are completely useless
The number of apps, states nothing of their quality or usefulness.
The iphone is a toy, it is not a real business or / do something device. If you like to look at nice pictures and cool graphics and show it to your friends, then you get your iphone. If you want to use your phone to do work, and make things easier then you (dont get an iphone)
iphone is largely a phone for high school / and somewhat college kids, and the few isolated adults that use it, most of which barely even check their email. So they use their iphone.. to make calls.
if you try to do any serious work, you will know, the iphone is a toy
more info from the source on
http://blog.ovi.com
maybe they where hoping for 50 mil in a couple o years, not in one day
Guys navigate to http://store.ovi.com it works like a charm. As for contents they are loading contents daily, for example when the store first launched there was no gravity app(a twitter application), this morning i checked and i found it. Just give em' time they would pull this off. Its not easy serving more than 50million people with variable languages .
Guys navigate to http://store.ovi.com it works like a charm. As for contents they are loading contents daily, for example when the store first launched there was no gravity app(a twitter application), this morning i checked and i found it. Just give em' time they would pull this off. Its not easy serving more than 50million people with variable languages .
Seems to me like it's a great success story. They got a hell of a lot more traffic than they were expecting. Good for Nokia. Too bad at the moment the selection of apps is quite poor. Then again my phone is so fully featured to begin with that I really can't think of anything that I might possibly need. Apple's store might have 20 000 apps, but does a single one of them for example enable you to read/write MS Office 2007 files? Well?
Better to be overwhelmed than underwhelmed!
Hey Shirk, I knew I could count on you! Don't mind him folks, he's just mad that he's been banned over 14 times at Gizmodo.