14 DAY TRIAL // We learn that Nokia has decided to end its networking site Mosh, which was launched back in 2007, and where people were able to post about anything they wanted. Although the site has seen a lot of popularity among users all around the globe, it seems that the largest mobile phone maker in the world plans to close it down.
Users were able to access Mosh from any feature phone or smartphone, but the website was also accessible from personal computers. The site allowed them to access content and share files with others for free. “We don't know where it exactly goes and we are not entirely in control,” one of the founders of the site, George Linardos, said shortly after the opening of the site, as reported by Reuters.
Mosh attracted to its side a lot of adult content, while it also made the relations between the phone maker and record labels Nokia partners with for offering music to its users pretty tense. Around 137 million downloads were recorded for Mosh until now and, although there is no official date for the closing of the site, it might coincide with the launch of Nokia's Ovi store in May, which is a sort of merger between the software Download! store, Mosh and the widget service WidSets.
Nokia is moving forth in the content offering space with its music store, as well as with the gaming service N-gage and with the Ovi media and application store. At the same time, it seems that Mosh has allowed the company to learn a lot of things about what opening and running a store is all about, and the upcoming Ovi is seen as the direct successor of the website.
“It was never going to last for ever, I'm surprised that it lasted this long,” is what artist Derrick Welsh, a Mosh member, said to Reuters.