Great news from the Ovi store, good ole Jan Ole Suhr, the developer of the best Symbian application Gravity, just retweeted something that grabbed my attention and it was a link to the Ovi Store statistics and Nokia displaying some impressive numbers. I highlight some of theme here for you guys.
At a high level, Ovi Store provides developers with unmatched distribution opportunities:
Global reach: more than 190 countries, available in 30 languages
Local relevance: content from over 90 countries
Adaptable: 120 device models offer Ovi Store content
Convenient: payment options include mobile billing with 85 operators in 26 countries and credit card billing in most countries
More than 120 devices are supported,
70+ are Symbian devices
Six of the top nine downloading devices are touch devices: 5800 XpressMusic, N97, N97mini,
5530 XpressMusic, 5230 Nuron, and X6 where available
Prominent Eseries devices included the E63, E71 & E72
The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic & 2700 are the top downloading Series 40 devices
Markets
The most active countries in alphabetical order are: China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Turkey, and UK
Over 80% of these consumers can purchase from Ovi Store using their local currency
In countries where mobile billing is available, more than 2/3 of customers choose this payment option
With support for 30 language variations, 90% of Ovi Store visitors are using their local language when available
There are 1.7 million downloads a day with more than 75% of downloads being apps
Offscreen Technologies has had more than 34 million downloads
This is great news, I actually thought the Ovi Store was doing a lot worse but these are some very nice and young numbers as I am sure that in the next 24 months these numbers should increase dramatically with devices rocking Symbian 4.
Nokia please pay large sums of money so that popular apps in the Apple and Android app store get ported over to Symbian, its only money for you guys and if you choose not to advertise all that much in certain markets ie. United States, then let your application platform do the talking. Some of the apps we need are:
A quick ass Facebook application, not the current one
A killer Twitter app or why not just buy Gravity and port it natively with all devices, Twitter bought Tweetie for the Iphone and now its a native app with some killer functionality so in my opinion Gravity and Jan Ole Suhr can fill that void and ramify from the Gravity framework to other apps, just a thought Nokia but why compete with the best application out there, hmm.
Guys we also need a revamped PIM set of applications but ahh tons more, I digress, you guys already know but you must be like the American company Nike.
