Ovi Store and the closing of Widsets
by admin on Jun.12, 2009, under Nokia, Ovi, Randomness, Widsets
So I’m not sure about my readers, however I am a little upset that Widsets closed down.
I’ve been using Widsets since its early days and i’ve always enjoyed the various widgets they provided. I had one for horoscopes – the only one I can see on Ovi Store costs 7 Euro; I had a couple apps which downloaded some pretty amazing photographs, such as 500 mpx, and I cannot find anything similar to that on Ovi Store.
Don’t get me wrong, I like the fact that Nokia opened up the Ovi Store, however I just wish they didnt close down Widsets, as there were some great things available there.
Of course the benefit that Ovi Store has over Widsets is the ability to download and install native and Java apps as opposed to just some widgets. Too bad they didnt port something to support those widgets via WRT.
Posted by Wordmobi
June 14th, 2009 on 11:14 am
Agree 100%. GeeZ everyone trying to do the same thing …. open AppStores/Social nets. no one left doing thigs right the first time and patient enough to build and improve on stuff they already have.
Nokia should have evolved and improved widsets … not close it down and make it point to ovi.
June 14th, 2009 on 11:17 am
I think Symbian needs to have its own application store just to compete with consumer demand, but there’s no need to close down a service that works. They should have just made a proper update to Download! Instead they took that out too!
-Nokia FanBoy
Posted from my Nokia N95 8GB