Nokia is planning an app store that could explode your head out of your ears and make your bladder explode in delight. Called the Ovi Store, this amazing app store will have 20,000 apps on launch, enough for all the men, women, and children in Scranton, Pennsylvania to enjoy an app a day for fifteen years.
I’m not quite sure why Forbes sees the Ovi Store as the second coming of the Jesusphone but I’ll accept that 20K apps out of the box is pretty good. However, there have been Symbian apps for almost a decade now, which mind of makes the claim of the biggest app store on launch disingenuous.
Interestingly, there will also be web video included in the 20K number, which means a bunch of wonky web video gets counted as well.
The store is so large because Nokia is stocking it with a broader selection of digital content. The company says there will be lots of entertainment and media files, including an entire category of short videos and “mobisodes.” The store’s 20,000 items will be across all of these categories, not just apps.
Oh well. I rarely go to Forbes for tech stories anyway.
Sweet Jesus, and when Apple says 1 Billion downloads its accepted on face value but when Nokia says they launch with 20k Files its seen as fabricating news. When Apple says they have sold 20 million iphones in 2 years its seen as the Jesus salvation but when Nokia sells 25 million 5800s in 4 months everythings has to be seen on context of the market…..blah blah blah blah…. When will this inherent Apple d*ck s*cking stop ???? I am so fed up of it!!!!!!! Come on, treat Apple on equal terms with other vendors and they come out a distant 9th place.
Amen brother. All aboard the 3.0 phailboat.
They’ll be playing catch-up (in terms of popularity anyway) to Apple for a long time.
Its not that I have anything against apple… its just that there are non apple users out there