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Ovi - Doorway to the Future?
Published by Steve Litchfield at 8:28 UTC, September 6th 2007
In this definitive editorial, a week after the Go:Play event, Rafe Blandford looks in detail about Nokia's new Ovi strategy (Music Store, N-Gage, Maps) and its core components and then predicts how it will evolve and connect to other mainstream Internet players over the next few years."Last week at the Go Play event in London, Nokia unveiled its new Ovi brand. Ovi, which means door in Finnish, will be a gateway, available on both mobile and PC, to access a full range of software and Internet services both from Nokia itself, and also from third parties. It will be the 'umbrella' brand for Nokia's future efforts as it expands from a focus on mobile devices to also offering a range of Internet services. Ovi is a manifesto for Nokia's view of the digital future, which sees a co-mingling of services from mobile, PC and web into a seamless experience, reached through Nokia's doorway.
The first version of Ovi, available later this year, will include the existing Nokia Maps services, the new N-Gage gaming platform and the new Nokia Music Store. However Ovi will continue to evolve with additional user interface elements, service suites and web communities being added over the course of 2008 and beyond."
News Discussion
The problem isn't network operators making content, it's network operators trying to control both the network AND the content. When people are locked into one network through locked phones and contracts, that's arguably an abuse of monopoly.
Phone networks just don't like competition in any shape or form. They do everything they can to avoid competition, both from other networks and from other content providers. Competition means you have to lower your prices, provide clearer prices, and provide a better product, none of which appeal to the management of phone networks.
This might have been acceptable in the days when mobile phones were optional luxury items, but mobile phone networks are now becoming an essential public utility, like electricity or water, and ought to be regulated just as tightly. In many cases mobile phones are the only phones that people have, and landlines are beginning to disappear fast (or perhaps never existed at all in the poorer parts of the world).
you rock.
i gotta make sure i get you on ovi.com as soon as possible. your perspective is highly valued.
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