Where's the fail whale when you need it, right? Early yesterday morning, Nokia
flipped the switch on its
Ovi Store, claiming that it's app market would potentially reach some 50 million users around the world. Unfortunately for Nokia, it seems as if all 50 million attempted to check things out at the same time. Web-wide, users were griping that things just weren't working out, and we're not talking about small packets of flustered users. In fact, Nokia was forced to admit that "shortly after launching, it began experiencing extraordinarily high spikes of traffic that resulted in some performance issues," and judging by reactions, we'd say "some" is now a front-runner for understatement of the year. Have things smoothed over for you today? Are you even bothering to check?
Update: Nokia has
apologized for the gaff and has reportedly added server capacity to handle the demand. Question is: is the fix working?
posted May 27th 2009 at 12:43PM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
NokiUser @ May 27th 2009 1:01PM
They should be apologizing for the underwhelming selection of available apps. Its nice to have a central place for finding new software, but so far it is unimpressive.
fever @ May 28th 2009 3:19AM
Probably because there are about 7 places that could be called a "Nokia App Store", all with slightly overlapping focus. Maybe this one will finally unite them all.
Blaxx @ May 27th 2009 1:16PM
It's working just fine now. I agree with NokiUser, there are a lot of apps but not many useful ones. There are great ones but they are few and far between
evilpaul @ May 27th 2009 1:17PM
last night it was running very good for me and still is. It was slow at launch but it is hitting a lot of people. I wouldn't call it a fail but they probably should have realized it was going to get hit with a lot of people.
There are some good apps on there. Most of the popular ones I use at least. The store app runs pretty good, not amazing.
momchil karabulev @ May 27th 2009 1:35PM
more info here
http://blog.ovi.com
D @ May 27th 2009 2:31PM
I never had a problem with it.
Jman18 @ May 27th 2009 5:42PM
Had problems with it day of the launch, but the experience after that has been nothing but smooth sailing. It definitely could have been handled better, and I was expecting more apps, but I think the platform is solid. Hoping the launch was just teething.
Nz @ May 27th 2009 10:35PM
for updates on ovi store:
www.topcellnews.blogspot.com
Lenny at Apalon @ May 28th 2009 12:47PM
500 applications available during launch and estimated 50MLN userbase - this is the gold rush right now
we already port a number of our apps and have customers pinging us about doing it also