Ovi Store Off to a Rocky Start

Over the week-end, we have received word from several countries that Nokia’s Ovi Store had finally open and experienced a few network problems – due to the success of the store, says Nokia.

Shortly after launching the Ovi Store at 2 am ET, we began experiencing extraordinarily high spikes of traffic that resulted in some performance issues for users accessing store.ovi.com and store.ovi.mobi. We immediately began to address this issue by adding server (Eric John, Nokia)

The Ovi store is Nokia’s equivalent of the iPhone app store and is part of a broader effort from Nokia to build a both platforms and eco-system at the same time, which is tricky, but also necessary. Of all the handset makers, only Apple, Blackberry and Nokia are the most likely to succeed to some degree. Others like Motorola are completely dependent on wireless carriers or will ultimately turn to Android or Windows Marketplace.