Comments on: nokia music store disappointment

By: Errol

Errol — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:04:08 +0000

Ok so Mac users can now download Nokia’s multimedia transfer app and get access to the store too. I doubt whether something will be done for us Linux users… for firefox or chrome. I’d consider buying music BUT there is NO way I’m doing so via anything on Microsoft. And if its locked up with DRM… well just another reason not to be bent outta shape by Nokia’s short sightedness with their business model.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:18:12 +0000

Orion7, thanks for the comments, but I still think that Nokia is shortsighted for the following reasons:

Firstly, I disagree with you that 95% of the PC market is running MS Windows. I suspect that it is closer to the 85-90% mark (I can’t check that figure for you right now, but I will soon). What that means is that Nokia is missing out on +-10% of their potential target market – a significant number in my opinion.

Furthermore, you talk about all Windows PCs being bundled with IE. That may be the case now, but in the future it’s unlikely that that will be the case due to antitrust regulations and a recent ruling by the European Commission (http://www.techdigest.tv/2009/06/no_bundled_inte.html). Removing IE from Windows and giving users real choice about which internet browser they use is definitely going to give rise to a decline in the use of IE, thereby once again preventing much of the market from making use of Nokia’s store.

For these reasons I believe that Nokia weren’t thinking very far ahead when they designed their music store, though I’m pretty confident that they are aware of this and are most likely implementing the necessary changes to make it accessible by all.

I do agree with you though that it was stupid for Nokia to choose .NET. As you said, Java would much likely have been a much better decision, or they could have written native applications for all operating systems.

By: Orion7

Orion7 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:30:40 +0000

Err, Nokia’s not limiting their customer base by only supporting IE – considering like 95% of the PC market is still running Windows, and IE is installed on every Windows PC by default, people can still use Nokia music. Sorry, its the price you pay for not using Windows.

The real dissapointing part about Nokia’s music store, is the fact that I am using Windows XP, and I cant get their absolutely rubbish little music store app to work. I just get a .NetFX runtime error, and the only advice on the Nokia forums is to “reinstall, it might work”.

Well, it doesnt work.

It works on some peoples PC’s, but not others. Hope Nokia gets some real developers, and fixes their app.

Why did they use the .net framework? They could have just used Java, and then Mac and Linux users could also use their store.

By: Anastacia

Anastacia — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:15:01 +0000

I feel you … linux user myself.
They were dishing out these freebie Nokia Music Store starter packs at UCT. First thing my bf and I wondered while looking through the leaflet:
Hmm, wonder what operating system this is gonna work on… well ya, needless to say that we didn’t bother taking it.