Comments on: Nokia’s Download! App Moving Backwards

By: Nokia Daily News - 09/09/08 | Nokia Daily News

Nokia Daily News - 09/09/08 | Nokia Daily News — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:20:14 +0000

[...] Symbian Guru – Download app is broken, can’t tell free from trial [...]

By: bersh

bersh — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:29:23 +0000

gotcha

By: bersh

bersh — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:29:00 +0000

gotcha

By: Aditya Singhvi

Aditya Singhvi — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:31:21 +0000

Who is smarter? The person who buys the applications for the smartphone or the one who makes these applications?

By: adityasinghvi

adityasinghvi — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:31:00 +0000

Who is smarter? The person who buys the applications for the smartphone or the one who makes these applications?

By: The Guru

The Guru — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:21:22 +0000

@Bersh – I understand the technical differences in a Widget and a WidSet. I don’t understand the marketing differences, and feel like the naming and delivery mechanisms are extremely confusing to consumers. That’s my point. :)

Also, *I* used WiFi, but what if I was on a bucket data plan, and had downloaded those apps? I’d have wasted my limited data on misrepresented apps. Not good.

By: The Guru

The Guru — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:21:00 +0000

Also, *I* used WiFi, but what if I was on a bucket data plan, and had downloaded those apps? I’d have wasted my limited data on misrepresented apps. Not good.

By: bersh

bersh — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:52:11 +0000

em, the n95 and n78 etc have web runtime, wrt, which allows the installation and running of stand-alone widgets, culled from the widsets library. im a little surprised you dont know that, being that youre the guru and all. also, why is it that you use up data when you are connecting via wifi? something sounds wrong there.
however, i too ran into the deceptive 0 price of various apps and think that the download app in general is really rather poor. they can’t have more than 3-4% of the total apps available for symbian. and thats not even counting the commercial ones!

By: bersh

bersh — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:52:00 +0000

By: ashu

ashu — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:02:58 +0000

i love nokia nokia nokia. I have download! Download! Download! Nokia is a charm. Download ah! I have long given up on it.