Nokia Store has over 100,000 applications says distimo
According to distimo, Nokia Store (previously Ovi Store) has over 100,000 applications. 116,583 to be precise. Well done Nokia Store. Are those official numbers?
http://www.distimo.com/appstores/app-store/21-Nokia_Ovi_Store
I thought back in October there was 60,000? (50K in July) How did that double in two months?
Are they counting content that isn’t apps (music? Trailers? Same version of apps for different phones? was there a sudden influx of Ovi App Wizard?
Either way let’s hope it’s an official number. 3 years to reach 100,000 is ok. The Nokia app store itself is somewhat slightly fragmented – i.e. one device has no access even to half that content. Some is s60, s40, S60 5th, S^3, and within that E6 specific versions, some now tailored for the new Belle and a few for MeeGo (Are the maemo apps still there?). But there’s something there for all Nokia OS users. It would be much easier then to somehow class all of that just under the Nokia OS brand :p.
We try to say it’s generally not about the numbers but about the quality. 100,000 is a nice threshold to reach. Getting 200,000 would be even nicer as then it’s fair to say hundreds of thousands of apps :p. Going to the quality…well…
The general quality of the apps leaves something to be desired, but the good ones are really good. It is missing mainstream ones and has never really got developer interest right from the very beginning. Nevertheless, there are still tens of millions of people wanting apps. It could still be pretty lucrative if you make a good enough app that’s decently priced at Nokia Store.
Source: distimo
Cheers Cocco Bill for the tip
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most of the apps are shit liked..
Most of the apps in the Apple App Store and Android Marketplace are pure garbage as well. Also, the numbers in those ‘popular’ stores include the same app with different language or different data stream – i.e. there was a nice example of a football (soccer across the Atlantic pond) app that had a different ‘version’ for each team it covered – a total of 100+ ‘apps’ which is essentially the same app.
Ovi Store a mere year ago was on the #2 spot, right behind Apple’s one, and together with its problems (mainly structural and some design wise) it still was everything but a failed ecosystem as certain CEOs *khm*elop*khm* would like us to believe.
True. Android MP and App Store have a ton of shitty apps. However, they have a significant number of really good ones too, something we are yet to achieve on Symbian (though we already have it on WP – note reviewers saying the apps they need are all there already).
Some popular apps cost more on wp store than in android and ios store….any reason?
No idea. It’s very annoying though. Same for Symbian. The prices of identical apps (especially in its early days) were so much more expensive for Symbian than in other stores.
well, I bought an LG Optimus Black after the starting collapse of Nokia, and it has being a pain to find fine apps, in nokia store there just one app for potcatching, but a really good one, in android there are thousands, literally, but just one good, all the others are crap and some even incredibly expensive.
I don’t think they are adding Music under apps because I read somewhere that Nokia had 15M songs in their music store.
Sorry, I should have clarified that by music I meant ringtones that are also downloadable content.
I don’t think that includes other downloadable content – they report BlackBerry store to have only some 50k apps, and they also have downloadable content in form of eBooks and such that put together with the apps would certainly exceed the 50k mark.
Now, unless they are biased, I don’t see why would they use different methodologies for evaluating different stores. After all, they clearly state the ‘content’ they’ve indexed:
- Flash Lite
- Java
- Maemo
- Symbian
- WRT Widgets
Wow, that’s amazing then. Doubling your content in 2 or so months. Even if fragmented, it’s still a lot of content for Nokia users to enjoy.
I want Nokia to release more numbers. Maybe Nokia Store downloads now 12M+?
this is just my opinion but when i browser the nokia store i dont feel like there is 100k apps..
True. Unfortunately, of the few great and amazing apps, Nokia Store has a shitty discovery system where you’re never going to find them unless you know the name.
In my experience, apps that I did bother downloading, it will still recommend me to download instead of showing me other cool apps.
How are people going to have confidence if that’s how they show Ovi Store? It’s been like that mind since day one.
That’s the total amount of apps, not the total amount of apps for one platform. Nokia/Ovi Store covers apps for Symbian s60, s60v5, S^3/Anna/Belle and even the s40 line in form of Java MIDP apps. The Qt unifying strategy would eventually equate them all, but with recent events I don’t know how much is that a real possibility…
In dependence of the platform, there will be a different amount of apps.
Yup, that too. But even with the several tens of thousands of apps for S^3, it’s a chore to find good ones.
Oh, I completely agree. That’s what I hinted at in my previous comment about structural and design problems with it.
It’s search is horrid and ‘similar/recommend’ feature is lackluster. Blogs/Forums/Twitter/word-of-mouth have been doing far more admirable job to promote the content on the Nokia/Ovi store, than the store itself.
It wouldn’t really require much effort to make it useful and far more user friendly, unfortunately Nokia didn’t bother with it much since its inception. Which is why I am surprised by the general success it was/is, but the numbers of downloads, apps and so on do not lie. On the other hand, I think that such performance is in spite of the problems it has, and that the sheer popularity of Nokia as a brand (at least up until recently) and the enormous amount of their devices out there has more to do with it than the quality of the store itself.
As a publisher i’m infuriated, by the Nokia store. How can users find more apps for say.. Facebook, Youtube or Twitter, when those keywords are restricted for use! anything that is trademarked is restricted for use as a keyword!! Jesus! those are just keywords, for search visibility! it’s not like the application used the actual trademark as the name of the App!
Now THAT is totally stupid and unfair, I agree.
seem to recall 60k apps back in april/may?
ive been saying they’ve had well over that for awhile now but no official numbers and people assumed the app amount stayed the same
thats why i was like “wtf?” when you guys were praising WP Marketplace and dissing the ovi store….
No. They hit 50,000 in July.
As for app store comparison, all 50k in WP Market place can be used pretty much by all phones. Not one single phone on Nokia Store can access 50% of what’s available there when it was at 50k. N8 possibly not even 1/4.
It’s not just sheer numbers, it’s what is actually compatible. And even then you have to look at the quality of applications that is available. Yes, every app store has noise, ios possibly has more shitty apps than all of Nokia Store and Marketplace (WP) combined. But it still has a significant amount of great apps. WP marketplace unfortunately has much better apps than Nokia Store on the whole – greater proportion in less time.
There are many, and I mean many many new apps. I checked the store after this post here and yes it was good surprise. Some applications are offering what I have been searching for so it is a good sign.
About how come suddenly all these new addition, well I can tell you that two of Mobile companies here in Pakistan, in which one is Telenor offered a competition several months back among developers to develop for mobiles. In Pakistan, Symbian and Nokia are still prominent brands although Samsung is overtaking but Symbian is still known the “OS” that have “Application” and also that can “Multitask”.
If you take a quick run now you will find many recent addition from Telenor Pakistan. I think the competition is paying off and contributing the sudden growth in numbers of Application.
Surprised by this to some extent.
Nokia store is just a joke..only java apps and games can be found here..
No symbian apps ..and all the apps are useless..
Oh Nokia ..what are u doing
I am using Nokia Smartphones from 2006 my first handset was 6600 and i used it for few months and unfortunately it was stolen! I lost that phone and after 5 years i bought C6-01. The 1st generation Symbian^3 handset and i updated from sym^3 to anna but the OS was not so good. And the browser and gallery function didn’t work properly. I waited for another os update and now it is symbian belle. Is belle really good than anna? I have a doubt and thats why i have not yet updated. Please help me and suggest me about the new belle OS.
How many apps. Are there in symbian^3?