Perhaps striving to be as open as possible, Nokia is opening its door to Apple to collaborate in its upcoming Web portal called Ovi. According to CNN Money:
‘In Finnish, Ovi means door. And our door is open. Of course, Apple can get into our portal. We even invite (Apple Inc chief executive) Steve Jobs to do so,’ Anssi Vanjoki of Nokia was quoted as saying.
I don’t think the ever cunning Steve Jobs will appreciate this welcoming tone. For one, Apple is a very closed system when it comes to their popular products and services like iTunes and iPhone. Then again, you cannot rule out this possibility for Apple is slowly opening its iPhone to outside developers with its SDK on February 2008.
On the other hand, the undertone of this seemingly friendly gesture is maybe to taunt Apple and hype the openness of Ovi and its gang of accessible services including Skype, Flickr, YouTube, and many more. Well, this whole mobile lifestyle war is just getting started and it’s very interesting to see which player will emerge as leader at the end of the day.
Thanks to MobileWhack for this entry
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