Ovi store is the much hyped nokia version of apple store but it doesn’t come anywhere near to the latter either in the application it contains or the site usability. Ovi store have applications for the S60 based phones which again have many varieties among themselves like screen size and hardware resources. Ovi store have variant of applications for different type of phone models and the download link is sent to the mobile via sms. I tried it with my nokia 6110 navigator and many of the application links did not work.
The bigger names are missing even after one month when the ovi store is launched. The site usefulnuss is not good either, the pages sometime jam with the response to ajax did not come back, session times out pretty soon and the search don’t show relevant results. For the nokia phone owners at last there is a place where the users can look for the applications they wanted. But unlike of apple store the ovi store does not look like it will be the preffered way to distribute applications for the bigger application makers.
Google announced its open source browser chrome today which will further heat up the browser wars which have started in mid 90s with micrsof t announcing Internet explorer to be free and neetscape navigator who was the leader in the browser market have to follow suit and from then the microsoft was able to pullup netscape from their numero uno position. microsoft continued to lead and influence web developers and designer alike till one day mozilla launched its super cool firefox which was taken very well by the users world over but still the number of ie’s are huge inspite of developers and designers reluctance to support it.
So instead of operating system Google was building a browser which peoples now a days is used to run more applications than any desktop OS. google have put a comic book to show the features of chrome that include a multiple threaded Javascript virtual machine built on top of webkit which is surprising since the earlier rumour’s of google browser was speculating that google’s browser wil be built on the lines of mozilla.
Googles announcement have came just after some time of its anouncement of continued financial support to firefox till 2011 whose major share of revenues are coming from google for just including a default google search box . the chrome will at first be availaible only for windows and it might follow the same strategy as followed by microsoft to distribute IE with windows and using IE to get traffic to its internet services.the only difference will be that google will use its popular services to distribute chrome like the way it did for firefox by showing message to users to get chrome instead and it will include support for its various applications in chrome.
There might soon be a mobile version of chrome too before the scheduled launch of android . The continued funding to mozilla signals that google will instead be in competition with msie rather than firefox but the demo of chrome indicates it will be a memory eating browser which may scare a significant number of users who can continue to use IE but in long run chrome can corner a big user base and there support to firefox may not continue in future
This is the demo of chrome