A partial overview of Ovi Store at 6:30 GMT 30/10/10 browsing it from computer

[quarkos]

Recommended apps:

There is 30 recommended apps right now of which I cannot tell much. 29 are free and one costs £1. Between the apps is Opera browser which I like very much. The one that costs £1, "Mobi Screen Protectors!" has 7 negative (one star) reviews out of 15.

Checking the "Utilities" section and clicking on Best sellers, shows again the app "Mobi Screen protectors!" (mentioned before).

In the other categories (as Business, City guides & maps, Music etc.) the message that appears after clicking on best sellers is "There are no paid items available for this category". The exception is Entertainment that shows the app "Ting!".

In specific, the message quoted previously appears for the sport category. I myself went through some few pages in this category and found some paid items.

Kindest regards,

Carlos Jaimes,

(author of CountDa !).

[tamhanna]

Hi Carlos,
thank you so much for talking back. As the inofficial PublishtoOvi triage man, I have to apologize but it looks like you just sent us STATEMENT.

Please also post here what you want Nokia to change - as it is not, the statement if nice and thankful but does not help anyone!

[quarkos]

Hi, thanks for your quick post.

I think promoting "Mobi Screen Protectors!" discourages users. Also would be fine that message "There are no paid items available for this category" described in the previous post would be changed for the link to the most popular paid app in the category or write something like "No paid item has qualified for this category".

Regards,

Carlos.

[quarkos]

By the way, I had N73 selected as my mobile phone while browsing the Store.
Important detail

[quarkos]

Browsing with N95 selected as my mobile:

In utilities section searching in the "New" category found in the second page "takeAchance" Rss feed. The image shows: "Hi there, Finally I got a chance to develop for iOS devices...".

I'm looking for "CountDa !" in the list, found it in page 48 or in other words in position 564 (published the 8th of September). It It will be very time and data consuming for somebody to find it by browsing the store. I'm very sad and discouraged, as a user by not being able to browse real utilities. Found 16 out 24 utility applications are Rss feeds in the first two pages of "new utilities" category.

Regards,

Carlos.

[tamhanna]

Hello,
the big issue that Nokia's search engine works subpar is well known.

Did you try to send an email to the Ovi support detailing your issues?

All the best
Tam Hanna

[quarkos]

Hi Tam,

my app can be found through search but people who browse the store to see if they find apps to spend the money on, won't be able to reach it because of so much rss feeds (In fact the sales have dropped to almost zero). This will affect all developers unless they republish the apps (something that the QA team won't be happy about) .

Is not a pleasure to browse the Ovi store with so much rss feeds mixed up with actual applications. No body has so much spare time to go through them one by one and filter out the real apps. I think most people don't have interest in blogs when they are discovering utilities.

Cheers,

Carlos.

[quarkos]

Ovi Store Utilities:

Is there any body (in charge of Ovi store) so kind to explain why the next items are considered utilities?

AcidS76´s tales
Akils Blog
Hong Kong Fashion Geek
danishmujeeb.net
buteek - Designer Wear
WannaBe Geek
Airdeccan
101 SMS Pick Up Lines
Allwoman
Freakify.com
MedNews Africa» Med News Afric
Big Tattoo Planet - Latest Fea
Motogari
EcuadorLegal
Venus
Invisible Cloak
go! magazine

These are only a few of many items that should be in a separate category as Blogs or Advertisement etc.

Thanks,

Carlos.

[tamhanna]

Hi,
if you ask me, it is because the developers set them to be an utility.

Nokia currently does not seem to enforce this. But: an own category for the RSS feeds would be gold indeed...

[quarkos]

Thanks for your reply Tam.

RSS feeds should be out of the applications category all together. There should be another tab (as there is applications, games etc.) for them.

[tamhanna]

You tell me?

I fully agree....

[quarkos]

14 of November 2010, Browsing with "Your mobile: Nokia E71"
When looking "CountDa !wide demo"(http://store.ovi.com/content/59986), it's payed version cannot be found in the related items list. The same is for Dialer-X | Demo and others. In fact, this "Related" items list is the same for every utility. The name "Related" is misleading.

[tamhanna]

Hi,
you know what - IMHO this desserved more attention. Send me an email to tamhan at tamoggemon dot com and I will work something out!

All the best
Tam Hanna

[quarkos]

On Monday the 3rd of January 2011 7:00pm UK time, browsing Ovi store with a desktop web browser and "Your mobile: Nokia E52" selected, "CountDa !" was in page 28 of best sellers applications and "JnR SONGS" in page 21. "CountDa !" has a price of £1 (please see link for more detail) while "JnR SONGS" is a blog at a price £4 (see link).

I wrote an email to support at Ovi publish asking about the situation that in my view is a non-sense. Since then I haven't got a reply but "CountDa !" is now in page 5 of best sellers and "JnR SONGS" in page 23.

Please take your own conclusion.

[OviStewey]

Hi

The popularity calculations are run every day and are based on downloads over the previous week. . In any case the intent is that Nokia is using short term popularity and calculating every day so there will be more turnover in the list so the user will have a chance to see new items and publishers will have a better chance of getting newer items onto the best seller lists.

Could you give us examples of app developers who feel they are not being properly rewarded for their efforts? Since Nokia has made changes in early December the lists have looked fresh and seem to be working well. Nokia tracked the turnover on the “Top Free” and “Best Sellers” list for N97 and C7 for a couple of weeks and the average turnover in the top 12 items on a daily basis was about 15%. So almost 2 new items a day were making it into the top 12. Over the course of a week it was almost 40% turnover in the top 12.

Thank you