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  • David Wood from Symbian Responds to Ovi Store Post

    Posted on March 31st, 2009 BarneyC View Comments

    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.

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    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.

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    • http://duncan-cragg.org/blog/ Duncan Cragg

      Windows Mobile is the (only?) other OS with this potential problem: traditionally more used by office-bound or techie types.

      If my (rather miserable) experience with Wince on the Xperia is anything to go by, no amount of community discussion will help track down the instability that builds up as you add and run many applications. The apps may have bad behaviour encoded into them, but the underlying OS has to protect itself, and other apps. Even good programmers make these mistakes when coding close to the metal – rather than insulated by a VM.

      I'm sure Symbian is a better architected OS than Wince, and getting better, but I'd say fixing (a) the resilience of the OS, using Linux as the standard, and (b) the programmability of Symbian/S60, again using Linux as the standard, are two big priorities for the Symbian Foundation. Both of these will go a long way to boosting multi-app stability in the user experience.

      David Wood assures us that Symbian Signed, at least, will get much better, which may help:
      http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2009/03/inter...

      Also, this article: http://wapreview.com/blog/?p=3331 suggests a bias in the Ovi Store towards Webbish technologies, which would hopefully bypass this issue anyway.

      And leave the native Symbian appstoring problems for Symbian Foundation (and I suppose O2 Litmus) to sort out .. =0)

      Duncan Cragg

    • http://duncan-cragg.org/blog/ Duncan Cragg

      Windows Mobile is the (only?) other OS with this potential problem: traditionally more used by office-bound or techie types.

      If my (rather miserable) experience with Wince on the Xperia is anything to go by, no amount of community discussion will help track down the instability that builds up as you add and run many applications. The apps may have bad behaviour encoded into them, but the underlying OS has to protect itself, and other apps. Even good programmers make these mistakes when coding close to the metal – rather than insulated by a VM.

      I'm sure Symbian is a better architected OS than Wince, and getting better, but I'd say fixing (a) the resilience of the OS, using Linux as the standard, and (b) the programmability of Symbian/S60, again using Linux as the standard, are two big priorities for the Symbian Foundation. Both of these will go a long way to boosting multi-app stability in the user experience.

      David Wood assures us that Symbian Signed, at least, will get much better, which may help:
      http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2009/03/inter...

      Also, this article: http://wapreview.com/blog/?p=3331 suggests a bias in the Ovi Store towards Webbish technologies, which would hopefully bypass this issue anyway.

      And leave the native Symbian appstoring problems for Symbian Foundation (and I suppose O2 Litmus) to sort out .. =0)

      Duncan Cragg

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