A few months ago, news of Nokia was mostly negative. 2 lost key allies for its new version of Symbian (left Motorola and Samsung as well) and several directors (including the Symbian project manager). But lately the news has improved, as well as straightens out their finances; the company has significantly increased its offering of mobile applications.
Nokia reported that its mobile application store, Ovi Store, and manages 3 million downloads a day. In addition, its developer community adds 400,000 companies. Additionally, the Ovi Store has over 160 million users in 190 countries (10 excellent applications meet following this enalce).
These figures are not negligible, although they are easily overshadowed by holding Apple, the leading mobile downloads. The last official report from Apple was in January and then daily downloads App Store reached 10 million. Today, with the successful arrival of the iPad and iPhone 4, it is likely that this total is even higher.
The comfort to be Nokia Ovi growth throughout this year. The application store had a total of 1.8 million downloads a day in August. In October the number jumped to 2.3 million and is now nearly double what it was for only around a quarter.
On the other hand, though Nokia is behind Apple in sales and downloads, and passed to another of its major competitors, RIM. The manufacturer of the phones BlackBerry said in September that their online store, the BlackBerry App World, recorded 1.5 million downloads a day, which was already below the 1.8 million recorded the previous month Nokia.
