Mobile Applications Market

Posted by pushpinder | Tag: Mobile Phone Development

"The store will combine its legacy software distribution channels such as the Download! service, which has been pre-installed on more than 200 million phones. However, only a fraction of those phones have ever been used to buy a programme through the service, which was only lightly advertised by Nokia. "It’s probably one of the biggest marketing mistakes in the mobile industry," said Lee Williams, a former Nokia executive who runs the Symbian Foundation"

In November 2007, I flagged the Download! client as a lost opportunity, well before the Apple app store existed.

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Market Watch

OVI

market watch Ovi launches today. I thought I’d give it a go on a N95. I downloaded via the Download! app and it told me the download was a massive 2984Kb… best use WiFi then! After downloading and starting the install (v1.05 (212)) I got "Item Open Failed" but the install continued. At the end I got "Please reboot your device after installation"… This is very unusual and for a moment I thought I was using windows! I rebooted the phone and started Ovi only to get "SecureWidgetUI System Error (-1)" and the app crashing. Nokia best fix this fast otherwise they are in for a huge PR nightmare. I wonder why the app is so large. Maybe it contains some kind of runtime or maybe lots of graphics. Either way, it seems very large for what’s just an ovi storefront.

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"Symbian accounted for 49.3 per cent of worldwide smartphone operating systems (OS) market share in the first quarter of 2009, down from 56.9 per cent share in the first quarter of 2008. RIM’s smartphone OS market share reached 19.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2009, up from 13.3 per cent share in the first quarter of last year. The iPhone OS accounted for 10.8 per cent of the market, up from 5.3 per cent market share in the first quarter of 2008."