More than 400 000 new developers in past 12 months; 92 developers each top 1 million download mark; 1.5 million downloads of Qt software development toolkits
via Nokia – Show Press Release.
See the following chart comparing Ovi with iTunes Music and iTunes Apps download rates. Continue reading “Nokia's Ovi Store downloads hit 3 million a day”
With the number of active Nokia service users now reaching 140 million worldwide, the company today announced that more than 200,000 people are currently signing up daily to Ovi, and that Ovi Store has reached the milestone of 2.3 million downloads per day. Available in more than 190 countries,
via Nokia Ovi Services Continue to Grow.
Nokia updated its tally of download rates so we can put the numbers side-by-side with Apple’s iTunes. Continue reading “iOS users are ten times more likely to download apps than Symbian users”
The last four months have seen tremendous app growth. Apple grew by 59k apps while Android added nearly 10k and Nokia added 5.5k apps to Ovi.
As a percent, Palm grew the fastest with 1,352%, followed by Ovi with 827%. The slowest growing was actually Blackberry App World with a mere 56% growth.
More curious is the popularity of certain categories. Games and Books are dominant in the App Store, while Personalization and Music account for more than half of Ovi (ringtones and wallpapers?)
Finally, in terms of catalog ranking overall, Ovi climbed the league table to third spot behind Apple and Android and overtaking Blackberry App World. Palm overtook Windows Mobile Marketplace which is now dead last with 693 apps.
link: Distimo Mobile World Congress 2010 Presentation – Mobile Application Stores State of Play
