Most probably to be able to say that there are XXX thousand apps and YYY million downloads, ZZZ times more than in the Apple AppStore or Android market

But it is really A PAIN to use the Ovi store with all that junk literally filling it up. Especially the "Newest" list is almost useless, because all new releases almost instantly get mixed up with all those "Ovi Store Wizard"-made RSS feeds.

It also looks that new releases are listed/sorted based on the id number. This means that if someone submits an app to Ovi and its approval takes several days, when finally approved the app appears on a location corresponding with the time of submission, not approval, i.e. way down the list. It sometimes takes scrolling 20-30 pages to find an app that has just been published...

On the contrary, updating an app takes it to the top of the list, so many developers log in and change just one character in the description, an icon, or a screenshot, every couple of days to get their app listed again as new...

Fortunately, my catalog excludes all those RSS-based "apps", so it's much easier to browse for new releases.

The only problem at the moment is that direct links to files from the Ovi store don't seem to work in the built-in web browser of the N9/N950 - it opens the Ovi store client and shows a message that "this item is no longer available". It works fine in desktop browsers and also in Opera and Firefox on the phone. The workaround I am planning to do is to check the browser's user agent and in case of N9's standard browser redirect to a corresponding page in the Ovi store rather than directly to the file.

It worked fine on previous N950 firmware releases, but on PR1.1 and on the current N9 firmware it no longer works.

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Best regards,
Michal Jerz
My-MeeGo.com -- My-Maemo.com