Dear lord, let the fun continue.
OVI, sounds retarded, whoever thought that name was better than errr, Nokia Apps or Nokia Point, or something equally *normal* I dont know, but they decided to name it after an african freshwater shrimp or something.
I decided to go and see what I would find and download, any free stuff? lets find out. So I open the web browser, navigate to their site, oh look, they have an app to install on my phone, cool, lets go and find out what it’s like.
Please sign up to continue
What? Why? I just want to download a free application, to download other free stuff, I dont care about my “account” or anything else, but ok!! this is 2009 where you’re supposed to have a surplus of redundant accounts spread all over the internets like herpes on the face of a whore, so lets go create an account!!
I enter all the details
Please enter a correct username
apparently I cant use my email address as my username, so ok, I chop off the gmail bit and continue. But oh NO!!! another error. I have to reenter my password, TWICE, on my mobile phone, typing my “secure” password is like 25 letters, so 50 characters later, I can try again
Please enter your phone number in the correct format
Urgh, ok, I entered the 0034 notation instead of the +34 notation that it wants, so ok, I will do it again in the way it ways
Please enter your password to continue
What??? I just did, urgh, ok, typing typing, another 50 characters and another 2 minutes down the drain…
Please type the captcha text
fucks sake, ok, this is annoying me now, ok, I type the captcha text, try again
Please enter your password to continue
YOU ARE FUCKING JOKING RIGHT???? AGAIN???? HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO ENTER THIS FUCKING PASSWORD, another 50 characters later, I send again
Please type the captcha text
ok, hmmm, it didnt SAY anything about it last time, it wasnt highlighted in red, or with an error, just the password, so why in the name of your god didnt it tell me???? I mean, I am on a mobile, where typing isnt exactly the easiest thing to do and making it EASIER for the users to create an account SHOULD be the best way to go around this issue.
So ok, at the end, I go through the entire form checking and double checking everything, I know I should have done it before, but normally you fix ALL the things it complains about, not filling in things you have not been asked for. but I can see that this might be a problem not just for me, cause when I explain to a friend of mine he also thinks the same, why didnt it just SAY SO, why did it submit the data and lose my old data? Why didnt it just retain the old data someplace, why does it make my life so hard.
I currently work for a company where we actually try to retain and keep as much as possible, basically, if you make a mistake in the form, as much as humanly possible is retained. If you enter your credit card details and then think, OH YEAH!!!! I have a user on this site, you can sign into the site and the form will be redisplayed to you, WITH ALL THE DATA, you lost NOTHING. This is 2009, nokia, get with the program dumbasses.
Instead of trying again, I closed the browser window and went to slashdot instead, I have better ways to waste my time. OVI just lost another user. Will the last one please turn off the lights.