Offscreen Technologies, who have released a wide portfolio of games, applications and eBooks on Ovi Store, have announced that their content has been downloaded more than 25 million times. Offscreen has focused on providing content for Nokia's touchscreen devices including the Nokia 5800, N97, X6 and N900. They currently have around 100 titles in the Ovi Store; some of the applications including Level Touch, Bright Light Touch and Labyrinth Lite Touch have been downloaded more than a million times.
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kudos to Offscreen, their apps are usually simple to use, attractive, useful and more often than not, free!
Amazing, 25 million downloads from an online store that is, according to some bright sparks that post on here, broken and unusable.
Yet again the doubters and whiners get one up the arse.
Offscreen produce some really good stuff. Kind of a nugget in a sea of chaff.
Jeez, no wonder the Ovi downloads went that big, since the only legal way to get those apps are... Ovi Store.
Nokia--;
How to put it.....this ought to shut up all the naysayers for good, but they'll propably keep embarrassing themselves even further >😊
For what it is worth, for each passing day, the US tech bloggers look more and more like clowns.
Meanwhile the tech media (especially in the US) will continue to convey the impression to their readership that the Apple Store and the Android Store (which makes no money for developers, in general) are the only ones that count. Sigh.
The great news is pressure will build up here, and the dam will burst eventually and Ovi Store will be lauded as the one to watch.
Great to see Nokia on a comeback. We can expect to see a similar pattern with the release of Symbian^3 and ^4 - this daft out of date notion that only Apple or Android make phones with good UI's and that Nokia can't compete at the high end, will gradually dissipate and be forgotten like a cloud in a blue sky.
Incidentally looking at the hardware specs of the new iPhone that was lost and found shows they are only just coming up to the spec level (aside from the high res screen) that Nokia users have enjoyed at lower cost and higher quality, for several years.
Please do not forget Nokia created Ovi Store only because of the pressure form competition (Apple to be precise). If not for iPhone, we would still be stuck with a terrible Download! service updated once a year. Competition is great! 😊
Now, if only Nokia could fix the app (widget) and finally allow updating applications downloaded form Ovi Store...
Ovi Store was in the plans before the iPhone store even opened.. but yes, competition is good as it makes sure Nokia will (in its own usual slowish pace) keep working on it. 😊
Ratza, that's a choise of Offscreen Production. Nokia does not force anyone to sell only through Ovi (of course they may give some special treatment to those that agree/want to do so, but I don't think anyone is forced to an exclusivity deal).
Unregistered wrote:Meanwhile the tech media (especially in the US) will continue to convey the impression to their readership that the Apple Store and the Android Store (which makes no money for developers, in general) are the only ones that count. Sigh.The great news is pressure will build up here, and the dam will burst eventually and Ovi Store will be lauded as the one to watch.
Great to see Nokia on a comeback. We can expect to see a similar pattern with the release of Symbian^3 and ^4 - this daft out of date notion that only Apple or Android make phones with good UI's and that Nokia can't compete at the high end, will gradually dissipate and be forgotten like a cloud in a blue sky.
Incidentally looking at the hardware specs of the new iPhone that was lost and found shows they are only just coming up to the spec level (aside from the high res screen) that Nokia users have enjoyed at lower cost and higher quality, for several years.
Do you have any proof that the Android Market doesn't make money for developers, and that the Ovi store does?
Nokia can't compete at the high end. What notable profit-generating high end products do they have?
You do know the iPhone 3GS is more powerful than any phone Nokia have, including the N900, right? And quality? From Nokia? Are you ok? The iPhone is solid, while Nokia's devices have been plagued with build quality issues consistently.
@VoReason
Define "more powerful". If having mono speakers, no microSD-slot, 320p res, underclocked GPU by far, no flash at all and a joke camera means powerful, then yeah, I admit, Iphone is the king of the hill, and will be for long. Else, you know what it is ;=
Well, as a developer of both Symbian AND Android apps (FYI - our apps aren't even possible on the extremely limited iPhone platform) I can say that we achieve far more downloads and far more sales on Ovi than we do on the Android market (and we're talking the same apps, just on different platforms). Although the Android Market experience is actually better than Ovi (getting alerts of application updates, easier navigation and access), there's just no ignoring simply how many S60 devices are in use.
Also, on the Android Market, due to the relative ease of developing apps, there's much more competition (similar to what's happening with the iPhone), which is driving the prices down considerably. On Ovi we can still charge a premium price and achieve reasonable sales as long as it's a quality app. Not to mention that the Android OS is still fairly immature, at least from a developers point of view, in my opinion.
Anyways, there's huge opportunity on Ovi - however it'd be nice if they made it a bit easier (and more fair) to obtain some sort of promotional placement, or exposure (not that any other app store is better at doing this), and gave the developer some method of directly addressing user complaints and reviews.
Josh @ Killer Mobile
Hi Josh.
As a another fellow developer, I totally agree with your assesment. As a developer of both iPhone, Symbian, J2ME and Android (though still relatively new to us) games, this is also the impression we have.
I also completely agree with your points on what still needs to be improved on the Ovi Store, but as far as we can see Nokia is now serious about developing it further. I am esspecially looking forward to the upcoming Symbian^3 devices, which in my view has huge potential, since these devices will be on-par, and even surpass, most Android and iPhone devices(!)
"You do know the iPhone 3GS is more powerful than any phone Nokia have, including the N900, right? And quality? From Nokia? Are you ok? The iPhone is solid, while Nokia's devices have been plagued with build quality issues consistently. "
- Hahaha....a troll with humor....oh wait, my bad 😛
Wow iphone more powerful than n900 haha funny guy. They both have the same cortex a8 processor, iphone 3gs has a gpu with clock speed up to 28 mil polygons per sec but is underclocked to just 7mil polygons. N900 on the other hand have a gpu running at its full rate of 14million polys twice the strength of the 3gs which is unlikely to be ever clocked above 7mil polys because of battery. The n900 also have a far more powerful os, flash, ram swap... I could go on and on, they are not in the same league 😊.
As was said by previous commenters, this big news will just be ignored by the iphone and android pundits, sadly.
After having the option to demo the N900, iPhone and the N97, I can say that the high-end hardware guys are correct. The iPhone is lacking but what it lacks in hardware it makes up in droves in software. Apple has proven rather successfully that the latest and top end hardware is not needed to have a highly successful, and user friendly phone. Apple realizes that it is all about the UI and the user experience. Nokia is mainly surviving on market share. You have to love the bottom feeds. They are keeping Nokia afloat. If Nokia had to compete against Android, or Apple with in a one phone only arena, they would lose, lose, lose. What would they put up against an iPhone or Android phone? An N97 (don't make me laugh), X6, ???? Then couple that with the eco-system of the App Store or Android Store, Nokia would be in last place for sure. Nokia's success is measured by the number of low-end phones they can sell. I wish Nokia would publish the return numbers for the N97 to see how many were returned or repaired. This is a true indication of where Nokia can compete. The high-end is not their domain. They should concentrate on the low-end where they can still make money, and leave the smartphone market for companies that get it.
A big fish in a small pond comes to mind... Well done, guys!
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