Comments on: Dear Apple: Please Steal Features From Nokia's Ovi Store

By: Olive Mobiles

Olive Mobiles — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:10:28 +0000

Apple has been great in making things better.

By: Videocon mobiles

Videocon mobiles — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:47:52 +0000

Apple is now in competition.

By: Varun

Varun — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:43:08 +0000

We just compared the Nokia Ovi Store with the Apple Appl Store

http://www.fonearena.com/blog/2009/03/15/nokia-ovi-store-vs-apple-app-store-an-indepth-comparison.html

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:09:27 +0000

@Wang:

I've never heard anyone here "freak out" at others stealing Apple's ideas. It's just ironic how they all suddenly want to copy from a company they've always viewed as the Poor Black Sheep (only good for graphics and music) for so many years. But when Apple steals, there's nothing ironic about it.

By: Wang

Wang — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:22:09 +0000

So it's OK for Apple to steal ideas, but if anyone else does, the Apple Evangelical Army freaks out. Typical.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:56:13 +0000

I kind of hope that all works out for nokia and microsoft app stores. My hope is that it will push apple to instate the missing pieces of the iPhone puzzle. I.e. Cut and paste, flash, Bluetooth file share and music streming ect ect. Personally I don't need any of those things but they seem to be a deal killer for others. So I hope apple implements the changes before the completely reconfigure the iPhone hardware specs (quadcore HD so on).

By: Ana

Ana — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:36:08 +0000

Nice...I like the idea. Good job Nokia.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:20:59 +0000

I don't care if it's real or not. No Nokias for me, ever, regardless of ANYTHING they do.

I'm an Apple user, and always have been.. Everything else is cr@p... period.

By: The Reptile

The Reptile — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:26:09 +0000

If Ovi isn't going to be running until May and likely won't have 20,000 apps of the bat whose to say that their algorithm is any good? If we took Nokia's word for it then we'd all have N95's or N96's and not iPhones. Sorry, Tenacious D, but I'll believe them when it's real and not vaporware.

By: sting7k

sting7k — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:18:01 +0000

I'm sure it's like they do on ebay where they just throw in words to show up in more searches, but ebay has cracked down on that.

But the app store (or iTunes) search is pretty bad. Apple should reject apps that try to game the search or something, in it's current form it's pretty much useless and I have to look through a sea of 15,000 dumb apps just to find the few good ones in the categories.

By: thekevinmonster

thekevinmonster — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:44:09 +0000

sting: have you read descs for the apps that are unrelated? I remember there was some flap about apps 'gaming' the search by writing "we love these apps: ifart, things, AnotherAppThatIsFamous, etc!" in the descriptions.

By: Sting7k

Sting7k — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:56:35 +0000

Apple needs to get a working search for apps before anything else. I can search for an app now and get maybe 4 apps that are related to what I looked for and 30+ other apps that have nothing too do with what I searched for. Like the seacrh just throws in random apps to fill the search out.