Les développeurs de la communauté Nokia viennent de recevoir un mail de la part de Microsoft leur indiquant que des changements sont à venir. En effet, à partir de début 2015, Opera va étendre son Store pour proposer plus d’applications Nokia, incluant Series 40, Series 60, Symbian, Asha et Nokia X ; afin de permettre aux utilisateurs de continuer à avoir plein d’applications. Opera Mobile Store offrira les mêmes possibilités que le Nokia Store, incluant la possibilité de proposer à la fois des applications gratuites ou payantes partout dans le Monde. Microsoft invite donc les développeurs à migrer leurs apps vers Opera Mobile Store pour continuer à proposer leurs apps ; une bonne nouvelle à la fois pour eux et pour les nombreux clients qui ont toujours un « vieux » Nokia.
Voici le texte original du mail :
As we focus our efforts on helping the Windows Phone developer community grow and succeed, we recognize that people from all corners of the world still love their classic Nokia phones.
And, for those of you who develop great apps, games and other content for these phones, there’s good news in store for you.
Starting in early 2015, Opera Software will extend the Opera Mobile Store to work with even more Nokia phones, including those that run Series 40, Series 60, Symbian, Asha and Nokia X software, ensuring people can continue to enjoy a variety of great apps.
Opera Mobile Store is one of the top app stores in the world and has recently reached 200 million average monthly visitors. With users hailing from 196 regions across the globe, Opera Mobile Store offers many of the same features as Nokia Store, including free and paid-for global and local apps for Nokia phones.
Opera Software will invite developers to make their content available in the Opera Mobile Store and we’ll support our current developers in this activity. In the near future you can expect to hear from us about how to do this. If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact us at operatrans@microsoft.com .
We expect Nokia Store to close in the first half of 2015 when the redirection to Opera Mobile Store is complete. And, while we’ll miss all your great apps on Nokia Store, we couldn’t be more excited about the future of those apps on Opera Mobile Store.
Je trouve que c’est une bonne chose de maintenir le Store, même si cela doit se faire à travers une autre marque. Et vous, que pensez-vous de cette initiative ?