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by shrikant 4684 days ago
The Nokia App Wizard (now called the Xpress Web app builder[1]) was exactly the same. All it did was let you "app-ify" a website or a feed. There were LOADS of junk apps on the Ovi Store at the time built using this wizard.

It didn't help that a couple of the Nokia blogs were app-ified and presented as "Featured apps" on the Ovi Store -- these "apps" would shove the app builder branding in your face, which meant more people were aware of this tool and used it to build their own "apps".

I know why I ditched that ecosystem as soon as I had the means!

http://xpresswebapps.nokia.com/