- English
Categories
- Americas [16]
- APAC [4]
- Business Opportunities/Services [6]
- BusinessSuccess [5]
- China [2]
- Cloud Technology [2]
- CrossPlatform [5]
- EMEA [2]
- Europe [17]
- Files/Data [1]
- Flash Lite [7]
- Games [4]
- GeneralSuccess [19]
- IMEA [6]
- In-App Advertising [1]
- Indonesia [1]
- Java ME [4]
- Localization [1]
- Location [1]
- Location Based Services [2]
- Maemo [1]
- MakingADifference [2]
- Monetization [2]
- NDSuccess [20]
- NDSuccess [1]
- New Symbian [5]
- Nokia Store [5]
- Open Screen Project Fund [2]
- Ovi [2]
- Ovi Store [58]
- Qt [18]
- Qt Mobility [1]
- Qt Quick [2]
- S60 [8]
- Security [1]
- Series 40 [6]
- Series40 [10]
- Singapore [1]
- Symbian [6]
- Symbian C++ [5]
- Symbian Web Runtime [1]
- Themes [6]
- Tools [3]
- Utilities [1]
- Web Apps [1]
- Web Technology [3]
- WindowsPhone [4]
Calendar
Recently...
- 100 million in 100 seconds
- Gaming for the Masses: Inode Entertainment Joins the One Hundred Million Download Club
- After 11 million downloads, Psiloc’s World Traveler moves to Nokia Asha Touch phones
- Tracking Baby’s Steps: ParentAssist, a Windows Phone developer success story
- FourBros Studio Scores Big Bucks with In-App Advertising
- Passion into Profit: Success Stories from DreamGamez and IND190
- Nanyang Polytechnic Students Score High Points with ShakePicPro
- Monster Truck Dash drives UTV Indiagames’ success in Nokia Store
- Twist Mobile sees big payoff in Nokia Store
- CellApp lights the way for millions of Nokia users
Nokia developer success: Pico Brothers on the road to 100 million downloads
OviPublisherSuccesses | 09 February, 2012 15:01
We first wrote about Pico Brothers in March 2011, around the time they hit the 20 million download mark for their Symbian^3 and S60 apps in Nokia Store. Since that time, the Finnish Pico Brothers team, Niklas Karlström and Kristian Engsjö – along with house dog Viggo – have continued to tick off milestone after milestone, hitting 30, 50, and then 80 million downloads in the Nokia Store from customers in more than 200 markets worldwide.
Niklas and Kristian focus heavily on app design, aiming to create simple, easy-to-use applications that look great on a variety of Nokia phones. Nokia’s Qt helps the developers go from idea generation to finished application quickly. Using Qt Quick and QML, developing an application can take anywhere from a couple of hours to one month. “The ability to develop apps quickly is a big part of our current success,” said Kristian.
Pico Brothers initially chose to develop for Nokia given the huge potential to reach millions of consumers around the globe – in just one online store. In their ongoing hunt for the killer app, they’ve released approximately 100 games, tools and lifestyle applications. “Our biggest measure of success is happy customers,” said Kristian.
A number of Pico Brothers apps are offered for free and supported by advertising, while others are sold as paid downloads in the Nokia Store. The company has successfully monetized their apps in the UK, France and Germany; and they’ve also experienced success by creating localized versions of some of their apps.
To Pico Brothers co-founder Niklas, the most rewarding thing about being an app developer is “being able to decide on our own day – to go snowmobiling or fishing on the ice. We have a lot of fun, and it’s nice to be out here, close to nature and the sea. You get inspired not just from an office, but from your surroundings.” See for yourself in this new Nokia Developer video why Niklas and Kristian believe developing with Nokia is “the most fun thing in the world.”
For more information about Pico Brothers apps, please visit: http://www.picobrothers.com/.
Qt
, Europe
, BusinessSuccess
, NDSuccess
|
Next |
Previous |
Comments (1) |
Trackbacks (0)
Comments
Login
Nice Work!
pasi.manninen | 14/02/2012, 14:26
Congratulations!