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2010-03-10
, 05:43
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@ North Texas, USA
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#42
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There is absolutely no reason of having two application managers in one device. Not a single logical reason. NONE
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2010-03-10
, 06:48
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@ Finland
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#43
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2010-03-10
, 07:04
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@ Missouri, USA
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#44
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It must never ever happen that one "place" controls what you may install on your device and what not. We know this concept and it failed miserably.
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2010-03-10
, 11:50
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#45
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The application manager already displays a warning if you haven't noticed How many of you actually read those things when installing something? Does the contents of the warning affect your decision to install the software? At least I have never read the contents of the warning.
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2010-03-10
, 11:57
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#46
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As for the subject at hand, I'm underwhelmed by the current state of the Ovi store. It seems a bit hackish, considering it technically DOES interface with the app manager (INSTALL files). I think that if there are going to be two independant channels, then they should feel independant OR communicate seemlessly without feeling "tacked on", as Ovi store does. I understand it's a beta, but they've already failed at trying to launch paid apps, what, twice?
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2010-03-11
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#47
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Which ones would these be ? The only two paid apps that appeared as a non-Nokia special deal are the ones from a single (slightly controversial) one-man-show publisher. Compared to that, there is a sea of hundreds (thousands, if you count those in -devel) free applications.
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2010-03-12
, 13:31
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#48
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The problem is not choice, but no matter what you choose, somebody loses (which, in turn means the users lose). If there is a free repo, the commercial vendors loose.
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2010-03-12
, 14:06
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@ Finland
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#49
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Rubbish. Merging with the Free repo means users will actually bother to look at the paid apps. At the moment I never bother with Ovi, because I can just stick to the free app manager. If the paid apps where merged into the app manager, I would browse them and make a decision.
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2010-03-12
, 14:24
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@ Boston
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#50
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At the moment the embarrassment is all with Nokia - the Ovi store with so few apps just looks pathetic.