Comments on: Apple App Store vs. Nokia Ovi Store – A Quick And Dirty Comparison

By: miksuh

miksuh — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:12:34 +0000

CNN application is also in the Ovi Store.

By: miksuh

miksuh — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:07:10 +0000

Eg. Nimbuzz, Fring and Shazam are available in the Ovi Store too.

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Free Nokia Games | Free Nokia Applications | NokiApp.Com — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:07:05 +0000

Nokia Ovi Store vs iPhone App Store Comparison…

Without applications our phones would be dead and boring, especially if you’re a tech geek. Ovi Store was launched at the end of May 2009 and the iPhone App Store was launched way back in July 2008. Ovi Store was the baby of Nokia and the App St…

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By: venkat mani

venkat mani — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:44:27 +0000

Here is my take on app stores http://thetechstig.com/?p=22 …i think apple will be the only success story in this arena

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Microsoft and Nokia to link arms? - Zune Boards — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:53:35 +0000

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By: orion

orion — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:58:15 +0000

Has anyone considered that Nokia apps where and still are available on handango.com long before the app store, so if developers thought ovi store is good place to be it’ll take them less than a week to make them available there.

By: orion

orion — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:53:32 +0000

Don’t you need to purchase PC, unless you can develop with pan and paper!

By: Kendal Slack

Kendal Slack — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:13:44 +0000

As if Nokia hasn’t milked you for your device money before the Ovi store opening…WTF are you on? Nokia only make the N97 now, ey?

By: John Doe

John Doe — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:37:03 +0000

One may argue that Nokia is losing now in from of Apple by not having as cool apps and as big names in the store.

However:
a) Outside US Sirius is at best a constellation and there aren’t that many buyers passionate of astronomy to care for a Sirius app ( the same goes for TiVo, and Sling, and so many other ‘big names’ … )
b) A store is a store, the store keeper will earn something but it is the business of those producing the apps that is at risk if they fail to see the huge market represented by Nokia’s phones. It is they that should be beggin Nokia for support and access to the market.
c) Nokia puts their applications in the store, together with 3rd parties (see in the above list as well) so the best app will get on device, unlike Apple killing all 3rd party attepts to penetrate the market with apps that “duplicate phone’s functionality” – only a stupid publisher would fail to notice the open market

By: Ram Singh

Ram Singh — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:34:36 +0000

I have got lot of free gud apps from the store.. So far its amazing experience! Great work Nokia!

Ram

By: Elad Kehat

Elad Kehat — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:33:20 +0000

The difference is pretty clear – AppStore has US-centric apps, and Ovi has a worldwide audience.
You can see that in the social networks they use (Friendster and Hi5 but not AIM for Nokia), in the mostly non-US news outlets, and in the music apps (SiriusXM is US-based service, Pandora is (sadly) inaccessible outside of the US).

Since the world is much bigger than the US, this is actually good news for Nokia…

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By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:21:42 +0000

Nokia has more than 50 mln phones on the market. Last year alone, they sold 72 million devices that have Ovi store support, that’s 1 year. Total, Nokia has around 200-300 million ovi store compatible devices on the market.

By: Lee Lloyd

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:39:52 +0000

Are you clinically insane? If I am not mistaken, you are claiming that Apple entered the mobile phone market before Nokia, and furthermore claiming Apple sells more phones than Nokia. That actually could not be more wrong if you tried. Nokia has been making mobile phones as long as there have been mobile phones, and has literally sold billions of phones! I don’t even LIKE Nokia phones, but to claim that ANYONE BUT Nokia “rules the mobile market” is pure insanity.

Last year, Apple sold a hair over 11 million iPhones. Nokia sold a little over 72 million smartphones (out of around 500 million total phones sold)! Apple has a really, really, long way to go before they even catch up with Nokia, much less “rule the mobile market.”

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The Mobile Revolution Accelerates » The Buzz Bin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:06:09 +0000

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By: bzhboy

bzhboy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:34:43 +0000

Nokia is still in the middle of the process of transforming from a mobile phone manufacturer to an internet devices manufacturer & services provider. Thet are currently doing huge modification in their middlware. I guess they will need another one or two more years to offer a very attractive environment.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:28:19 +0000

iPhone/Touch owners: ~15million
Nokia owners with access to Ovi Store: ~50million

By: Michael Johnston

Michael Johnston — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:53:28 +0000

I think this article came way to early! A better comparison might have been between apple and the android market which has been around a bit longer.
Any comparison with apple will be unfair given the time it has had to get established. A proper comparison would have been to compare where the apple store was after one month. Then perhaps we could have had some decent comparisons. As it was, all we got here was: apple good, nokia bad!

By: Engago team

Engago team — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:10:31 +0000

The list of content providers is very US centric. Please note the world is slightly bigger.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:08:23 +0000

What about an app that plays music everytime the train goes into the tunnel?

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:01:11 +0000

One of us needs to see a shrink. But first tell me all about Balckberry users.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:57:06 +0000

What carbide tools?

By: ProSymbian

ProSymbian — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:03:41 +0000

Nokia OVI Store has SMS mobile billing (currently supported by 27 operators, see blog.ovi.com for more details), while Apple does not have SMS billing.
In some countries where Nokia phones are very popular but credit cards are not a usual way of payment, this might help.
You can read this article about N-Gage and SMS payment
http://moconews...arrier-billing/
Just quoting
Nokia’s VP of product management, George Linardos, illustrated just how important operator billing is….“When we start locally with credit card billing and then we move to operator billing, we see a 70 percent lift in sales literally over night.”

In the past this mobile billing influenced sales to a great degree, this might happen again.

By: megatroid

megatroid — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:35:08 +0000

I don’t even know what ‘just changing their arm’ could possibly mean; anyway it’s not some who’s-first contest. It establishes a hell of a lead. See ya next year and tell me what’s missing. And whoever said Nokia’s not attracting big web names: Nokia *is* one. U been drinking the coffee at the Genious Bar, haven’t you…