Nokia has announced that Ovi Store downloads have reached 3m per day, while more than 400,000 new developers have signed up in the past year. Among the downloads, 92 developers have each seen their apps downloaded more than 1m times; altogether, Nokia is seeing more than 1 billion downloads per year.
Meanwhile, Qt adoption – the runtime system which has been adopted for cross-platform use on both Symbian and MeeGo devices – is also strong, with Nokia seeing 1.5m downloads of the Qt SDK. According to BLStream CEO Anton Gauffin, the coders responsible for gaming title Crazy Hamster, “without any promotion or marketing dollars, in a few weeks we’ve hit 200,000 downloads in Ovi Store faster than we did with App Store.”
More than 250,000 users sign up to Ovi every day, Nokia reckons, which makes for a considerable audience. The real worth of Qt won’t be seen until high-end MeeGo devices arrive in 2011, however, where it will debut to an established ecosystem of titles rather than having to build a software base from scratch.
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