From Nokia World, 2009, Germany:

Day 2 - focused on services and SDK

"Delivering on People & Places"

• New OVI APIs and new OVI SDK
• OVI Maps Player API
• introducing: OVI MAPS API and
• Ovi Navigation Player API - add naviagtion for walk and drive to your app
• Let's simplify - Programmers complained to NOKIA it is too cumbersome to develop apps to different devices (Symbian s60v3,v5, Maemo, etc)
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• Ovi SDK - contains:
• APIs for Maps, Location, Navigation
• Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (web runtime)
• www.forum.nokia.com/Ovi
• An example of Navigation app: Primordial (Ground Guidence)

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Why the Ovi SDK is only JavaScript (WRT)? If the program is JavaScript, anybody can see the source code, so it is hard to create commercial apps...