Those rooting for Nokia’s new Android romance might be happy to know that they can now install the Nokia Store app on their devices. While it doesn’t really let you install Nokia-specific apps, it could signal the start of Nokia‘s apps getting ported to other devices, whether they like it or not.
Love it or not, and some manufacturers probably don’t, one of the things the Android community is skilled at is getting brand-specific features or apps available to other devices, at least when technically possible. It does sort of level out the playing field a bit, but in some cases the apps don’t fully work on other devices anyway.
Such is somewhat the case with Nokia’s own Android store app. Since Nokia’s shiny new Nokia X and XL Android smartphones aren’t Google-certified, the Finnish company had to make do with providing users with an alternative app marketplace, not an unusual practice among some device vendors. In any case, the Nokia Store app has now been ported, unofficially of course, to other devices and curious users can test out the Android app economy from Nokia’s eyes.
Of course, not everything in the Nokia Store catalog will be working. The absence of Google Mobile Services will definitely leave out some apps that make use of Google’s API. But Nokia has also introduced its own framework and APIs on the Nokia X line, so apps that make use of those won’t work either. Hopefully we’ll see further efforts in making those, as well as some Nokia apps, available in the future as well.
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