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IHS has just published some research on much revenue was made through the Android Market, iPhone App Store, Nokia Ovi Store, and BlackBerry App World in 2010. Predictably, the iPhone App Store is still the king of the hill with $1.7 billion in revenue, but they’ve lost some market share since 2009 (82% vs. 92%).…
After running since 2008, Nokia’s “Comes with Music” service, which provided unlimited tunes for a year from Ovi for a significant markup on handsets, has been canceled in 27 countries. China (where it’s DRM-free), India, and Indonesia will continue selling one-year subscription packages, while 6-month subscriptions will still be available in Brazil, Turkey, and South…
Nokia announced today that they’ve hit a milestone in their mobile app marketplace, the Ovi Store. Every day, three million downloads are made through the on-device and browser-based channel. Just to put that figure into perspective, GetJar hit that number over the summer, though they sell across a bunch of platforms. The Ovi Store hit…
Nokia is really pushing its Ovi services and the download and usage numbers are reflecting that. To date, 200,000 new users sign up every day, Ovi Store downloads average 2.3 million per day and 70 developers have exceeded the one million download mark. Not too shabby for the platform, and one would have to assume…
India’s Reliance Communications (RCOM) and Nokia are teaming up to promote the Finnish company’s mobile services, including Ovi Life Tools and Ovi Music. As part of the deal, RCOM will offer rural and semi-urban segments of their users Ovi Life Tools, which is a range of services covering agriculture, education and entertainment. Reliance will offer…
We have a new Ovi Store success story to talk about. It involves Pizero Design which Earth theme has crossed the 1 million downloads mark within 86 days. That’s an average of 11,600 downloads per day! In case you wonder, the lightweight theme (comes with default icons) works on both touch (S60 3rd edition) and…
Nokia is taking advantage of all the buzz surrounding the UK’s general election to spread the word about its Ovi Store. In a move one could call “Look we have apps, too!”, the Finnish giant placed a number of full page ads in various UK newspapers highlighting news apps such as AP News, Evening Standard…
This isn’t the “pure” mobile news, as we’re talking about a web-based service. But since that service syncs with select Nokia devices, it is somewhat related. Anyway, Nokia Beta Labs unveiled the new version of Ovi Calendar (1.6). Still in beta, the updated service brings support for multiple calendars, which is awesome (and possible with…
It’s not like every day we have some Ovi Store success story to share. Unfortunately for Nokia, they haven’t been able to repeat Apple’s AppStore success. If you look at Shazam’s example, it has hit 1 million Ovi Store downloads after 7 month, compared to 1.5 million in 2 months on AppStore. To be fair,…
Mobile application analytics firm Distimo has published some numbers on U.S. app stores that might surprise those who have had to wade through the mountains of free software on iTunes. As it turns out, it’s the Android Market that actually has the highest proportion of free applications available. Android’s app market growth is also…