Ovi Store passes one million daily downloads
Published by Ewan Spence at 9:34 GMT, December 11th 2009
One million downloads a day. That's the popularity of the Ovi Store, reports ME News from a Nokia round-table this week. Although still in its first iteration, with a new version of the store due early in 2010, and many will comment that ring-tones and wallpapers as well as applications will be included in that number, it's a significant number.
The statement came from George Linardos, Nokia's VP of Products/Media. He also talked about how the current Ovi Store version was being used as a 'halfway house' to gather Nokia's differing products such as Mosh, Download! And Widsets into a common location to better help users find relevant content.
Finally, about 75% of the code in this new version of the store will be new code, with the last quarter replaced over the next few iterations of the code base. While the Ovi Store has had a very rough ride since launch, the information and feedback from consumers (as well as the media) will hopefully result in an improved experience for Nokia, consumers and developers in 2010.
Categories: Industry
Platforms: S60 3rd Edition, S60 5th Edition, General
News Discussion
I tried contacting Nokia at nokia.care.europe@ovi.com and moderator@nokia.com and so far haven't received any replies as to what I can do with my removed Ovi account.
There isn't much to come back to as I personaly think that Ovi Store is just awful and so far I haven't found even one remotely interesting/well-made app.
Still the way Nokia treats me is unprofessional to say the least.
Do you know any other e-mail addresses I can try to send a message to? I would really like anyone from Nokia to explain how I can visit Ovi Store again.
My advise, buy another phone brand, move on and everybody will propably be happier.
-It would be _very_ interesting to see the percentages over just how many actual applications that number includes... But somehow I very much doubt that Nokia will be releasing those figures to the public any time soon... ;)
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Originally Posted by gam
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There isn't much to come back to as I personaly think that Ovi Store is just awful and so far I haven't found even one remotely interesting/well-made app. ... I would really like anyone from Nokia to explain how I can visit Ovi Store again. |
but come on.. if you just troll, that's what happens. Anonymity isn't an excuse for acting like a git. If you don't like something, repeated complaining will not fix it, constructive criticism is great, and if that doesn't work, going elsewhere will at least lessen the pain for all involved.
I too share the view that the Ovi store has a *long* way to go. e.g., I can't download maps booster in Australia on my n97, after much searching found that it wasn't available for my country, but on device client just tells me it can't find the app, which is rather misleading. I personally hope the client improves, so I don't have to hock my n97, but if it doesn't, meh, that's life.
That would explain why I have been finding it perfectly usable since it appeared. I was beginning to think I was some kind of genius. Now it appears that everybody can use it apart from a few inept window lickers.
In any case, I prefer to buy direct from the developer.
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Originally Posted by Ewan
One million downloads a day.
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What'd be more interesting is details, such as the split between
- games
- other kinds of apps
- videos
- ringtones
- wallpapers
- themes
- e-books
- other content types
And then it'd also be interesting to see the split between free downloads vs. paid (how much of the downloads are such that actually generate revenue to someone). E.g., if the paid content is only, say 5%, of the downloads, it'd give an indication whether this is a business for anyone (Nokia or developers) or just "charity".
And it'd also be interesting to know what are the top devices and top markets (countries) generating the downloads.
Note also that with over 1 billion Nokia phones out there, getting close to 1 million downloads a day amongst all the couple of hundred phone models out there, isn't that much per phone or even per user yet.