Nokia Discontinuing PC Suite

Question

Nokia writes:-
"Nokia PC Suite will eventually be replaced by the newer, more user-friendly Nokia Ovi Suite application for both Windows and Mac."
The only thing true about that statement is that Ovi is newer.
Otherwise it is a complete disaster with little of the functionality and customisation that can be achieved with PC Suite. It is hard to understand and grotesquely inefficient.
To add insult to injury it runs at the speed of a snail on Mogadon.
Please Nokia, listen to the user base. Just for once. By all means promote Ovi in the vain hope that people will buy apps that are largely for children. Let the adults who need to run their lives efficiently and with the minimum of fuss carry on using PC Suite. There is nothing wrong with choice.

Answer 1

Has to be said (again) that this board is only a lightning conductor for people like us who find things that Nokia does irritating / ineffective / incomprehensible / ...
No guarantee that ANYONE with any clout in Nokia ever reads anything posted here.  Even if they do, the New (microsoft) Regime is even LESS likely to do anything to meet the sort of requests that come up.  Look at history (of both Microsoft AND Nokia).  It's littered with incredible stupidity and contempt for the customers.  When you look at the recent decisions on Symbian (dump it and go to Mobile Windows), you begin to understand the Nokia position.  But how could an apparently well-run and highly-motivated company  ALREADY HAVE an efficient platform that ran many phone models for a very long time - and then mess it up completely?  OK - there WAS work to do to adapt Symbian to (a) different user interface(s).  But isntead of doing it ONCE, properly, Nokia seems to have tried to do it 3 different ways, in competition with itself.  Then it finds that it's alienated many of the existing customers, failed to capture sufficient new ones, throws all the toys out of the pram and falls into the arms of Microsoft.  Sheesh!
Minor issues with perfectly good software (PC Suite) that don't get properly redeveloped / fixed are NOTHING compared with the major structural problems in the software that SHOULD have been fixed long ago and now won't be.
Nokia has totally failed to recognise is that many users (including me) used to buy Nokia phones because we LIKED the way they worked.  We don't want to learn a new idiom and/or migrate to another (ie. Windows) that we ALREADY dislike.
But what does Nokia know about customer relationships?  Judging by what comes up here and recent events, not a lot.