Ovi Store higher revenues than Android Market
Some interesting numbers comparing the App Stores from Apple, BlackBerry, Nokia and Google.
Interestingly, despite having 150,000 less apps than Android Market, Ovi Store is raking it in with 105 Million Dollars in revenue. That’s a 719.4% growth over the previous year Apple grew 131.9% in the same time frame (though with understandably huge revenues). Android (with all it’s manufacturers) had just under than Nokia’s Ovi Store with 102 Million.
What also surprised me is how well BlackBerry App World was doing.
Microsoft’s Marketplace has no mention at all.
via CNET
Cheers J R for the heads up!
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Whoa didn’t expect that at all well done Ovi store, it seems like its getting better at an inconvenient time just when Wp7 is about to be introduced.
The reason why Blackberry app world is there is because the apps are a rip off plus you have executives buying them
Yup, really inconvenient time to be making a switch. ugh.
On BB – My mate was just telling me earlier he was looking for a pdf reader and it was asking him £16.
what? We got that for free.
we don’t need a 3rd party GPS app
and alot of other things but elop made a bad announcement
Although built-in Abode PDF reader on symbian^3 is pathetic. I would gladly buy a paid app although maybe not for 16 quids
Really? My old faithfull N95 8gb opens pdf-files faster than my laptop. Last week I had to find some info from 200 pages long file and it was bit laggy but i found what i was looking for.
Don´t know about Symbian^3 thou..
The PDF Reader on Symbian^3 is essentially the same PDF reader as on the N95. It’s had almost no work done on it in years and the interface has had a bare minimum of touchscreen enablement.
Good on S60 3rd edition, awful on Symbian^3 touch screens compared to iOS or other touch based OS.
There is the Alternate Reader
See my comparision of the Adobe Reader and Alternate REader here: http://www.symbeing.com/applications/alternatereader-vs-adobe-reader-le-for-symbian3/
Try Alternate Reader.
Whops, should have refreshed the page before replying
Yet, they are killing symbian, smart move nokia! /not.
Go Ovi Store!
What is also important to note though is 1) how far behind everyone else is compared to Apple 2) how miniscule to at best small the revenues are, EVEN for Apple, compared to other revenues 3) how point 2 emphasizes that is not only about revenues, but about the ecosystem’s and the devices’ attractiveness to end users. Looks indeed like for app developers Ovi Store is much better than at least Android.
Great find! This is really surprising. I wonder why Nokia didn’t publish or at least gave some hints about those numbers!?
OviStore bringing in more revenues than Android Market? Sounds like a good message for a press release …
I wonder if those numbers are correct, though :-}
Out of the total OVI-sale, I wonder how many percent Gravity did
So what?!? What is the point talking about a walking dead? Nokia is gonna end up killing ovi in favour of nokia market place.
I would love to see a breakdown for the Ovi store.
I am curious about what percentage of apps were java, WRT, and how many native symbian.
So on the average each app in the android market made 57c last year?
A big chunk of apps in the Android Market are ad supported or free.
So they have a lot of apps out there for the platform, but the users are not in the habit of purchasing many since there is usually a “free” alternative.
And Stephen Elop is giving away this to Microsoft.
Oh come on! Ovi services are a complete failure. So what if there are (were?) more than 4 million downloads a day and increasing? The platform was on fire, and we had to jump.
I curse the Gods that made me too stupid to understand the wisdom of Nokia’s new strategy.
One more thing, has anybody ever quantified how many Nokia apps are being downloaded from other providers besides the Ovi store?. 100,000/day 500,000/day?
That’s (was) the good thing with Symbian, you aren’t locked in. Get your app directly from the creators if you want.
I swear to God, if I can’t download Opera (or whatever the hell I want) on a Nokia-Windows phone I’ll never get one.
1) Expect better revenues of Ovi Store once sales of Symbian ^3 picks up.
2) Not certain if these figures includes the in-app advertising revenues. Should be a lot different and possibly with Android in the lead.
3) Hate to accept it but Apple sure is generating money for it’s developers. My guess is a large chunk are revenues from content consumption, and some money generated from applications that are already available as features on a Symbian phone.
If(big if) Symbian reduces some features and put it the Ovi Store as quality apps, things could be different. And to top it off, Nokia will be releasing updated models faster due to lesser amount of bug ironing required.
However you look at it Apple sure as accomplished a lot.
Sales of Symbian^3 aren’t going to pick up because Elop has killed the platform. Developers aren’t going to develop for a walking dead platform.
look i think its a good move my nokia
Symbian was dead anyways, they have taken way to long to get things right
if nokia did not make the changes here is what will have happened by the end of 2012
this mis a list of phones sold with a os on
1:-google (samsung and htc and lg and others)
2:-iphone
3:-bb and samsung wave os
4:-Symbian
5:-meego (bad reviews for having no apps and no usa sales and nokia being sold to ms anyways on the cheap)
come on you think i am worng
here is the new list for 2012
1:-wp (basic) (sold by nokia)
2:-wp8 (sold by nokia and samsung and htc and lg and others)
3:-google (sold by samsung and htc lg and others but no way as many as there was this year)
4:-bb
5:-iphone (making no big chnages in there os and phones, 4″ just no good, there sales where also hit big time by the samsung gs2 and the new wp7.5 phones from the year before as made thing change big time in just one year)
i find it funny how people say symbian is dead lmao if u didnt relise io the last quarter of 2010 nokia sold 24 mill smartfones compared to apple’s 14.5, n the n8 sold 4 mill when it was expected to sell 2.5, so no nokia isnt dead its just not as big as it used to be, n the ovi store will keep goin cus wp7 apps r gona be realesed through ovi
I have a Nokia N8 (I’ve always used Nokia), the main reason I got the N8 is because its familiar plus the camera. I really regret actually getting this phone solely because of the OVI store. It is total rubbish, there is nothing on there and when you make-do with something the OVI store reacts very slowly. When friends ask my opinion of the N8, I say its a great phone BUT I wouldn’t get is because of the OVI store. Nokia I expected better from you, I really feel let down