Nokia Ovi Store To Debut With Thousands Of Applications
According to a recent comment by Nokia Officials at the Nokia Developers Summit, when Nokia opens up the doors to its Ovi application store , it will have “thousands” of applications ready for shoppers.Eric John, director of marketing for Nokia, said there are thousands of applications in the pipeline being evaluated by Nokia, and that when the much-anticipated Ovi Store debuts in May it will have at least 1,000 or more applications on it.
The Ovi store is Nokia’s response to wildly popular Apple iPhone and RIM Blackberry newly launched Application store. In the recent weeks, Nokia has been marketing their platform superior to the iphone store and has publicly asking iphone developers to try building applications for its platform. According to some reports many developers have been impressed with the platform and are expected to migrate their existing application over to Ovi. It remains secret to be seen how Nokia will monetize these apps and help developers make money.
