Pico Brothers: The road to 100 million downloads

If you’ve used a Nokia and downloaded any apps on Ovi Store/Nokia Store, you will at one time have downloaded an app from Pico Brothers. Well, it’s highly likely. As such they’re well on their way to reaching 100 MILLION downloads. Just to give context on how big that is, possibly the world’s most popular game at the moment (Angry Birds) reached 500M downloads in November. Pico Brothers have achieved 80M through Nokia channels.

http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Blogs/blog/nokia-publisher-successes/2012/02/09/nokia-developer-success-pico-brothers-on-the-road-to-100-million-downloads

The cofounders of Pico Brothers, Niklas Karlström and Kristian Engsjö, talk about all aspects of their apps business. The guys met while working at a telecoms company. Spurred on by the launch of Ovi Store (now Nokia Store) they took a bold leap into apps development, something that Kristian described as “exciting, and challenging, and a bit scary”. But it took them only a couple of months to get to grips with developing for mobile phones. They now create most of their apps using Qt, in anything from a few hours to a month. Having already passed the 80 million download milestone they are looking forward to achieving 100 million downloads.

Thanks Leticia from Nokia for the tip!

Category: Nokia