Nokia has started talking up its Ovi Store statistics, claiming that it is enjoying some pretty handy growth.
The Ovi Store, which houses all manner of downloadable items like applications and wallpapers, is apparently now churning our one million digital downloads a month.
George Linardos, Nokia's Vice President of Product/Media, said: "We're doing just under one million downloads a day, and our download numbers are growing 100% month-on-month," according to Mobile Entertainment.
Tight lipped
And not only that, but Nokia intends to completely revamp the store in the next year, which has been kept out the spotlight by the likes of the Android Market and Apple's App Store.
Although staying tight lipped on the way this new site will look, Linardos did say the current store was only a temporary measure to collate Nokia's content, and the next version will be both more attractive and functional.
"All the while there's been this new platform being built in the background, which we'll be talking about in the next couple of months and launching in the spring with what we're calling 2.0," he added.
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derekblankmccoy
December 11th 2009
2. @Corumba
other appstores sell only that: apps, hence the name. It's only nokia that's watering down their service by providing useless content.
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corumba
December 10th 2009
1. Apples vs Oranges vs Nokia
It's great to see Nokia doing well. In order to evaluate the download volume of an App Store accurately, it's important to ask whether the downloads are apps, or whether the numbers include apps combined with ringtones, wallpapers, music downloads, and other high traffic content. Apple, GetJar, Blackberry app world and most others measure themselves on app downloads, simply because the technical process of matching phones to the right versions, downloading large app files over shaky carrier networks, getting the app to install, run, register, and work, is a much more complex process than downloading a ringtone or a wall paper. The public may not get this, but anyone who works in mobile does get it. For example, GetJar has well over 1m downloads/day, and they are all apps.
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