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GetJar furious that Nokia claims they’re the second largest App Store, Nokia confesses their mea culpa

Categories: Nokia,
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, December 17th, 2009 at 5:11 AM

GetJar, an App Store filled with mainly J2ME and Flash Lite applications, is furious that Tero Ojanperä, Executive Vice President of Services at Nokia claimed that Nokia’s App Store, with nearly a million downloads a day, is second only to Apple’s App Store. GetJar does 1.7 million downloads a day, and they don’t host wallpapers and ringtones like Nokia’s Ovi Store. “The message is misleading to the industry and developers” says Ilja Laurs, CEO of GetJar. Joseph Gallo, Nokia spokesman told Forbes that Nokia really wanted to say that they are the number two content store offered and operated by a handset manufacturer, at which point a semantics battle to the death took place. Having used both, I can say that they both suck. The Apple App Store sucks too for discovery. Most people find out about applications from friends and family, or via the internet from publications such as this one.

How do you find out about applications? Leave a comment below. I only use 5 applications: HandyTaskman, Opera Mini, Google Maps, GMail and the dictionary that comes built in.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Song Lee Kim

    I think that most iPhone users use many more applications and games. iPhone users seem to be ready to spend a little money. Apple is very lucky to have segmented markets and grabbing the users willing to spend a little. There has been some category battles on the iPhone. For example all the gaming companies compete hard with EA and Gameloft really doing well. Maybe in the navigation space the loss of TomTom to a new company, MotionX has been remarkable. MotionX has been leading the category every day since they launched and according to reports have now close to 500,000 subscribers in North America and counting.

    There may be a new generation of companies emerging with the Smartphones and older ones consolidating.

  • Hary

    It seems you are marketing for MotionX. Your comment is nowhere relevant to the article.