David Wood from Symbian Responds to Ovi Store Post

Overnight I received a very welcome surprise by way of David Wood, EVP and Head of Research at Symbian not only reading but responding to my thoughts of yesterday of the potential pitfall Nokia faces with its OVI Store.

There’s a reason why David’s where he is and I’m not – he managed to sum up what I was trying to say in just two short paragraphs;

The challenge identified here is an important one: will the Symbian apps which can run in background and which can access powerful APIs end up delivering a poor experience to normal phone users (especially when more than one of these apps is running at the same time).

I suspect that some apps will behave well and others will behave less well. The community as a whole will find out which apps belong in which category, and will publicise their findings. So the apps that behave well will have a good success in the marketplace.

Providing some form of developer  and application reputation metric based on community responses will certainly go some to not only helping users decide which  but also in encouraging developers in continuing to make apps safe / work / useful.

You can read more of David’s thoughts on stuff (and it’s an ecclectic a mix of bits as I look at) over on his blog as well as on the official Symbian blog.