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Originally Posted by switch-hitter View Post
In terms of revenue Ovi was bigger than Android Marketplace and it was growing fast too right up until Elop tore up the MeeGo/Symbian/Qt roadmap.
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If you're correct that there is now no money to be made from creating apps for NOKIA then that's another disaster visited on them by Elop's incompetence (sabotage?).
How about you support your claims with numbers, as this seems a copy of tomiahonens blogspams. Ovi might have had good results in numbers of apps sold, considering it was covering some 20+ handsets and Nokia did have a vast share of phones out there. For developers it was a nightmare that they dropped at a tip of a hat for solidified iOS experience (no more looking for 20*x people to test if it works at all, one test - works? we promote to PROD). And yes, there was no money in creating apps for Nokia, as QA/support swallowed all that awesome money you speak of without quoting figures. People who paid even 1$ expected a working app, fragmentation of Nokia's marketplace prepared the floor for its demise. Elop wasn't even around back then.