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Yes. I made a game for S60, in 2004. I agree the SDK and the API were poor. But I think the real mistake they made was failing to build an app store. IIRC I thi
by jamesdhutton 4y ago
Yes. I made a game for S60, in 2004. I agree the SDK and the API were poor. But I think the real mistake they made was failing to build an app store. IIRC I think they might have had some kind of rudimentary app store but it wasn't accessible to mere mortals. The only way I could figure out how to distribute my game was to post it as a freely downloadable file on the web, which I did. I have no idea whether anybody ever downloaded it. If they had just made it easy for developers to distribute their apps then I think history might have been quite different.
- secondcoming 4y agoNokia had Ovi which was an attempt at an app store.
- seniorivn 4y agoall of it was a late reaction to iphone changing the market. Initially they didn't have any of it, and at the time when they got to a N9(an actually competitive device), their leadership already decided to do windows shenanigans(and alleged forced merge by microsoft executed by steven ellop as a Nokia ceo).