Nokia networking site named MOSH (http://mosh.nokia.com/) will be closed in near time, although still not clear when the closed date exactly. Nokia will shutter this free service due to the explicit adult and warez content in the site. Following the closing of MOSH, this biggest phone manufacture will open its new service, Ovi store, in May. Ovi store may become the rival of its competitor, Apple’s App store. So far, the Apple’s App store is the success software supermarkets for the mobile with its over 500 million applications downloaded in just a half year.
Said David MacQueen from Strategy Analytics: “Mosh will die, but I would contend that in many ways the new Ovi Store is the child of Mosh rather than the child of Download”.
The MOSH itself has reached the high traffic, it is about 137 million downloads so far. The former of MOSH, George Linardos, admitted that they actually did not know where the site?went and also stated that they?were?not in control.
Although the MOSH will finish in near future, but this service is a spearhead for the coming service, Ovi store. Nokia had learned a lot from MOSH about running an open store, getting developers products to the market and user recommendations should work.
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