Nokia Beta Labs announced on their website that Nokia Pulse for MeeGo Harmattan and Symbian won't be further developed nor supported.
Nokia's Pulse had similarities with the famous Foursquare application (available for Nokia N9) and let users send private messages that were automatically tagged with their current location.
Nokia Pulse remained beta status in a while and never made it into Nokia Store as a mature application. Therefore it is to assume that not many N9 users are affected by this decision. The public beta of Pulse will remain downloadable on Nokia Beta Labs and is also available via http://pulse.nokia.com/html5. The desktop web version won't be accessible anymore on March 5th, 2013.
While Apple or Google focus more and more on providing own applications and services for their platforms, Nokia discontinues one after another (Ovi services and several applications). An application like Pulse would need a solid numbers of users to be successful - hence Nokia's decisions are very difficult to understand.
Read the official announcement below or on Nokia Beta Labs.
"With Windows Phone as our primary smartphone platform, naturally we are also focusing our primary development efforts for Nokia Pulse on it. That’s also the reason why we haven’t updated the Nokia Pulse clients for both Symbian and the N9 recently. Moving forward, we will now officially conclude the Nokia Pulse beta trial for Symbian and the N9 and will no longer offer the download option of Pulse for these platforms on Betalabs.
We truly appreciate the role the Symbian/N9 trial members have played in providing feedback on Nokia Pulse on these platforms, enabling us to learn from it and improve the application.
While we will conclude the public beta trial for Nokia Pulse on Symbian/N9, users that have already downloaded the beta for Symbian and N9 can still continue using the service. Please note, however, that these versions may be affected by upcoming backend changes that can impact the app performance and functionality.
As Nokia Pulse beta further evolves as a mobile messaging experience, we have also decided to discontinue the desktop web support for Pulse on March 5th, 2013. After that date, you will no longer be able to access your Pulse conversations from the desktop web. Nokia Pulse will continue to be available on Nokia Lumia phones and all other Windows Phones via the Windows Phone Store. It will also be available on other smartphones such as iPhone and Android devices via your HTML5 enabled mobile browser at http://pulse.nokia.com.
We are very grateful for your feedback, suggestions and insights. Thank you for using and contributing to Nokia Pulse.
- The Nokia Pulse team"
source: Nokia Beta Labs via MyNokiaBlog.com
