Simon Judge’s constructive critique about ad-powered Download! client
Here’s some good thinking by Simon Judge about Nokia Content Discoverer, and about our advertising-powered Download! Client under beta.
I agree, there must be ways to use Catalogs/Download! more effectively.
Your thoughts? (of course, UK people might want to submit their thoughts here instead, to win a Nokia E65)
Nowadays, there are so many applications and content that I think it would be very difficult to pack everything in such a tiny application/ecosystem that is download!. By the way, is Simon describing MOSH or Download!
If MOSH was a better service with different “publishing channels”, perhaps he would not complain about Download.
I agree that it’s unclear the way the catalog is presenting the applications. Are they the most popular, the oldest applications, is up to date?
Personally I would prefer the download appt and its future pc counterpart to be my one-stop-shop for applications I know already or Nokia is recommending to me based on popularity, my interest and my phone usage. MOSH could be used for a complete 360 degrees download experience.
Comment by Reda — November 28, 2007 @ 5:00 pm
It would be good if all the different phones in all the locations had access to all the same content. With Download!, and also Nokia regional websites, there are many arbitrary restrictions and artificial market segmentations. It’s supposed to be a platform.
MOSH users, through basically what amounts to piracy, are providing the service Download! should be. Though, even on MOSH there is still the issues with “refuses to install on anything except device X for no reason other than developer restricted it (after marketing asked him to)”.
For example I have N93i. Global race for E90 works on it, but it’s not in Download! Groove Labyrinth for 5500 works with its accelerometer (though the screen size is wrong). etc. None of them are in Download! I’m sure there are many other examples that can be given.
It would be better to list everything, and to have a feedback system where users can say an app works well or not with a device, and then make them less prominent for devices that give negative feedback. Not having them at all is just the very opposite of openness, and makes for an uncompelling “Download!” experience.
Why is there not a Beta Labs folder in the catalog? Why no MyS60 folder? etc. Why not have a MOSH folder in the catalog for where registered developers (rather than random pirates) who released content on MOSH would automatically be mirrored in the catalog.
Anyway, as it stands, Download is trying too much to be a “premium service” to be very useful. I agree with the one stop shop comment.
Unrelated rant, but MOSH is also very limited. I can’t do or make or manage anything in there (which is probably why there is so much piracy of existing content). how about web based theme design app? flashlite game generator?, widget/widset designer? how about even basic ability to blog something, personalize my page, manage my contacts, chat, etc.. It should be causing explosion of S60 content, but right now it’s not adding anything much to S60 world since all it does is allow people to upload existing C++ and Java apps… besides being a replacement for Download!
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