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The scoop on Nokia Ovi Suite for Mac

By Charlie on 18 November 2008

ESPOO, Finland - We’d spoken before about how Nokia devices work with Macs. But we also suggested that there might be more coming down the line. And there is.

Marko Lindgren, Senior Product Manager in the Ovi Desktop group in Nokia Software and Services, granted me a few moments to explain what he’s up to with Mac desktop software, what it takes to get this through Nokia, when things might happen, and some other interesting tidbits.

See the video, below, for more.

Macs at Nokia
Marko is part of a small group of people at Nokia who are making Mac software. As he says in the video, Nokia is quite focused on Windows computers. Lots of us use Macs in our daily work, but have to work really hard to justify having a Mac over a Windows box (please, no flames here, it’s easier now than a few years ago). Naturally, it then becomes hard to justify making Mac desktop software at a scale that matters for Nokia to make the investment.

Fortunately, Marko is proof that the company sees a benefit in creating Mac desktop software (also, internally, it is allowed, even though not easily). And, as we get deeper into making Mac software, I hope that things are successful enough to open up the company a bit more to Mac use (yes, this is self-serving).

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  8 Comments For This Post

  1. Renegade Fanboy Says:

    Yippee! A job ad already gave this away (http://www.renegadefanboy.com/2008/10/nokia-is-working-on-the-ovi-suite-for-mac/), but I’m really happy that it is actually happening rather sooner than later! ;-)
    Kudos to Marko! :-)
    (Sorry for the amount of smileys and exclamations - but this is really exciting. Any help needed to make this happen?)

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  2. Darla Says:

    Just a question to your statement Charlie. “Nokia is quite focused on Windows computers”. why is that exactly? For the benefit of the consumer should services be offered on multiple platforms (and here’s wishful thinking) and offered at the same time?

    But I am glad to finally see that things are in the works. Thanks Marko!!!

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  3. Ms. Jen Says:

    I’m with Darla here, Nokia should be personal computer agnostic and should care about wanting to make their customer’s happy not seriously aggrovated by their PC-only stance.

    Nokia is a mobile company who is stepping in to web-services. Take all the products to the web and make them device-agnostic.

    Now we are arguing about PC v. Mac here, but Charlie & Co. have spent the last month arguing for the 1100 Club and emerging markets, which if Nokia is series about serving the emerging markets with mobile and web services then EVERYTHING needs to be device agnostic - be that device a Nokia mobile, a PC, a Mac, a linux box, or an Xbox that accesses the web.

    Farmers in India and tailors in Sierra Leone are not accessing web services via their PC or Mac, but via their Nokia.

    As a web professional in California who is Mac only, I would prefer to have Nokia services that would sync and work with my Mac, but maybe we should be stepping away from thinking about mobile to computer interaction and instead thinking about mobile to web service interaction and then web service to computer, of which then it wouldn’t matter if one’s computer is Mac or PC or Linux or…

    Thus:
    Mobile Device Nokia Web Service Computer

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  4. Ms. Jen Says:

    Can I spell this morning? Can I use the Preview button. No, obviously not…

    3rd line, 1st paragragh, should be ‘aggravated’.

    3rd line, 3rd paragraph, should be ’serious’.

    2nd line, last paragraph, Typepad stripped my less than/ greater than signs.

    So, I will rephrase the diagram as follows:

    Mobile Device - Nokia Web Service - Computer

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  5. globalist Says:

    It’s the middle of March ‘09 and no word about Ovi for Mac - nothing even on the Nokia beta site. I’m wondering if this is one of those projects that’s announced and quickly forgotten? In all honesty, this not a major software project for a company of this size.

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    charlie Reply:

    @globalist, He said that it would be out ’sometime in 2009′, so March might still be early.

    And, no, it’s not been forgotten (nor was there any announcement).

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  6. Diego Schoening Says:

    Where can i download the ovi suite for mac?

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    charlie Reply:

    @Diego Schoening, It’s not available right now. Let’s all be patient (I want it too!).

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  7. Jeff Says:

    Is there any news on this matter?

    I would love to see OVI suite for mac anytime soon!!!

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    charlie Reply:

    @Jeff, no news.

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  8. freehah Says:

    oh my god, can’t wait for it to be out soon…
    my n79 is not working properly with the iSync eventhough with the plugins for n79 is installed…

    hope it will come out soon!

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