Thread: Repositories down until Monday 18.1.2010
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2010-01-18 , 05:26
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Originally Posted by thefoxtrot View Post
It doesn't appear that Nokia even cares. This is their prime, new device and I had to search forums to find out that on Monday, their device will actually re-gain access back to the limited number of apps. I hope they do something to make up for this. Fingers crossed for a stash of new apps when Ovi exits beta stage.
That is not accurate.

Nokia's servers haven't gone down, and apps provided on Nokia servers including on Ovi are still available.

Only the maemo.org repositories are down. Do you think Apple cares when non-Apple sites go down, or Google cares when non-Google Android sites go down?

That said, maemo.org is special. It is a rather grey line between Nokia and maemo.org.

Nearly all the useful third-party apps are on maemo.org. Nokia clearly relies on it for their (almost non-existent) marketing.

Nokia pays for maemo.org servers, and maemo.org repos are installed by default. But it's clearly not run by Nokia, nor run the way Nokia would run commercial servers. That comes with pros and cons. A pro being all the good community development and involvement resources that are hosted on maemo.org. A con being... what we saw this weekend.
 

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