Ovi Developer Day

Rafe reports back from the recent (September 2009) Ovi Developer Day in London, with details on all the main speakers and the issues raised (and responded to). Rafe notes in particular (and welcomes) a sea change in Forum Nokia's attitude to developers. There are also a number of interesting facts and stats about the Nokia Ovi Store.

"The event opened with a market overview summary, including a recap of many of the recent announcements at Nokia World, before moving on to a presentation of the opportunities for developers within the UK and Ireland markets. Mark Loughran emphasised that local contacts could help with a diverse range of activities, including the promotion of applications and content (e.g. the current N97 ad campaign in the UK includes promotion of local content), market intelligence (e.g. which devices to concentrate on) and with commercial leverage of the Forum Nokia organisation (connecting you to the right person at the right time). Incidentally, the presence of Mark Loughran at the Developer Day, Nokia UK's Managing Director (General Manager, Nokia UK & Ireland), underlines the importance that Nokia is now placing on developers."

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Published by Steve Litchfield at 13:40 UTC, September 30th

Categories: Developer, Events
Platforms: General, S60 5th Edition

News Discussion

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Comment: Regarding "Approving 500 content items a week": Was there any talk on how many of them are applications/games, and how many are wallpapers, videos & such?

Rafe

Comment: No there wasn't, but I'm're looking at doing my own analysis of this.

To be honest I think that's a generous number (maybe if you include different phone variants for some games etc.).

Watch this space.

Thief

Comment: Nokia N97 marketing? What? The blatant apple rip off app commercial that even goes as far as stealing the line "there's an app for everything"!

Nokia should be ashmed of themselves IMO, and I hope they don't start spouting numbers - how qbout 2 billion apps downloaded for a number Nokia? And that from a userbase that's tiny compared to your "huge" lead *rolls eyes*

Rafe

Comment: Yes the blatant rip off ad is one of them... But did you see Apple made a phone.... talk about ripping of Nokia! It makes calls and everything. They'll be adding MMS functionality next.

Joking aside though, the ad campaign is a lot wider than that one ad.

Unregistered

Comment: Nobody is going to be ashamed. Nothing at all wrong with aggressive marketing. All is fair in love and war.

To quote Apple:
"Steps removed and sequences shortened. Network speeds may vary."

Apple approved an edited tv commercial that used camera trickery to make the iPhone appear better than the reality. Scum.

neohuabai

Comment: [quote=Thief;440212]Nokia N97 marketing? What? The blatant apple rip off app commercial that even goes as far as stealing the line "there's an app for everything"!

Nokia should be ashmed of themselves IMO, and I hope they don't start spouting numbers - how qbout 2 billion apps downloaded for a number Nokia? And that from a userbase that's tiny compared to your "huge" lead *rolls eyes*[/quote]

I haven't heard of it, very exaggerative.

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