Nokia's Eric John on the developer proposition of Ovi store

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Nokia's application store, Ovi Store, is now accepting content from developers, and will launch in May. In our latest developer feature, Richard Bloor speaks to Eric John, Director of Media Product Marketing for Nokia Services, to discuss the developer proposition offered by Ovi store. There's questions on operator billing, supported content types, platform support and more.

Here's an extract from the article:

Richard: Hi Eric, thanks for finding time to talk about Ovi Store. Can we start with the big question: Will Ovi Store work when Nokia’s earlier attempts at on-device sales portals have been perceived as less than totally successful?

Eric: We have been learning about selling software in a mobile environment through initiatives such as Download! These initiatives have been successful, but we always want to do better. Ovi Store is the result of that learning and I believe will achieve significant success in growing the market for software on Nokia devices.

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