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Symbian platform share in the Ovi Store (IV)

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:27:06 +0000

Mobbler, the open-source Last.fm radio player and scrobbler for Symbian smartphones is five years old today!

To commemorate, here’s an updated (generated by Ovid) chart showing the share of its 225,098 downloads in the Nokia Store.

With a second year’s worth of download data, it’s interesting to see S60 3rd Edition is still going strong.

Figures for the last full month (March 2013):

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11 Symbian Belle models: 28.7%
3 Symbian Anna models: 1.1%
5 Symbian^3 models: 4.6%
12 Symbian^1 models: 30.5%
38 S60 3rd ed. models: 36%
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22 S60 3.2 models: 17.5%
12 S60 3.1 models: 14.9%
4 S60 3.0 models: 3.1%
==============================

See here for some older charts for other applications. Let me know if you create charts for your applications.

Originally posted on Hugo van Kemenade’s Forum Nokia Blog.

Symbian platform share in the Nokia Store (III)

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:59:47 +0000

Mobbler has now been in the Nokia Store for a year (not counting the previous stint under Symbian Horizon), so here’s an updated chart generated using Ovid.

With a year’s worth of download data, it’s interesting to see S60 3rd Edition is still going strong. There’s a recent peak in Symbian Belle after I noticed distribution wasn’t set for all Belle devices in the Nokia Store settings.

See here for some older charts for other applications. Let me know if you create charts for your applications.

Originally posted on Hugo van Kemenade’s Forum Nokia Blog.

Symbian platform share in the Ovi Store (II)

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:47:38 +0000

Here are some charts generated by Ovid showing the Symbian platform share for some applications in Ovi Store.

First up, Mobbler with 100,000 Ovi Store downloads (21st February - 31st Augst 2011):

The ratio of touch/non-touch decreased but then increased from 65/35 to 55/45. The initial large 25% share of Symbian^3 is explained by the fact that the Ovi Store release was the first to support S^3. This quickly decreased to the S^3 store average of 15%.

I’ve also updated the Ovid script to include Symbian Anna and Belle devices too, and you can just see a tiny Anna sliver sneaking in along the bottom. Belle also has some Nokia 700 and 701 downloads, but it’s too small to show up.

Next up, Podcatcher (February - May 2011):

(source)

Podcatcher has a touch/non-touch ratio of around 8/2, and S^3 account for around 75% of downloads. I expect there’s so much Symbian^X because of the Nokia Podcasting application either pre-installed or available as a sisx for older S60 3.x phones.

Now some charts with a nice long history: a pair of applications from Ravensoft that have been in Ovi Store since June 2009.

Tweets60 with over 650,000 downloads (June 2009 - August 2011):

(source)

Tweets60 is better on non-touchscreen, so has a bias towards S60 3rd edition devices, and the touch/non-touch ratio is about 1/1.

Finally, Ravensoft’s Battery Extender with 2.5m downloads (June 2009 - May 2011):

(source)

This is probably a fairly good representation as it appeals to all handsets. The touch/non-touch ratio is around 6/4.

Click here to find out how to use Ovid; if any other developers/publishers have run the scripts, leave a comment! Thanks to Andy Nugent from Ravensoft and Sebastian Brannstrom for sharing their charts.

Originally posted on Hugo van Kemenade’s Forum Nokia Blog.

Symbian platform share in the Ovi Store

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:14:34 +0000

Android provides this very useful chart* for developers, making it very clear which platforms are in common usage, so developers can accurately target different platforms.

Unfortunately Nokia/Ovi Store don’t provide this kind of data so it’s left to guesswork. For example, last July (and before Symbian^3 came out), All About Symbian claimed the split of S60 5th edition to 3rd edition application sales was roughly 10 / 1, “collating info from a number of sources”, though they won’t share these sources.

Ovi Store provides publishers with a monthly report of how many downloads have been made, a rank of the countries, and also a rank of which phones that have downloaded your application alongside a percentage. They don’t break it down into a share of the different platforms: S60 3rd edition, S60 5th edition/Symbian^1, Symbian^3.

So I’ve knocked up a Perl script to take the monthly reports and divvy out a platform share and plot it. Here’s a graph of Mobbler downloads by month.

Mobbler was previously in the Ovi Store through the Symbian Foundation’s Horizon programme, but since the closure of the Foundation we don’t have access to the old data. The newest Mobbler 2.x has been back in the store since February through our own account: 48,906 downloads from Ovi Store (and another 16,126 from Google Code).

It’s strange to see the numbers going the “wrong” way. Why is this?

Well, Nokia recently said in a press release Symbian^3 devices “account for about 15 percent of the daily downloads”. And this very closely matches Mobbler’s S^3 numbers for March (14.6%), April (16.3%) and half of May (14.4%) . It was almost double that in February (27.1%), presumably a rush from S^3 owners due to it being the first Mobbler release that supported their phones.

But why are the older S60 3rd edition platforms growing in share? I’ve no idea.

Would you like to create a chart like this for your Ovi Store application? Here’s how, and I’d really like to see charts from other applications that have been in Ovi Store for longer.

Step 1. Grab the Ovid scripts from Forum Nokia Projects.

Step 2. The boring manual step. Paste the tab seperated devices list from the Ovi Publish report into .tsv files, one per month. For example 2011-03.tsv:

#1 Nokia N8-00 11.2 %
#2 Nokia 5800 XpressMusic 10.2 %
<snip>
#68 Nokia N93 0.0 %

Step 3. To generate a single report, call

ovid.pl 2011-03.tsv

This outputs to standard output, for example:

#1 11.2% Symbian^3 Nokia N8-00
#2 10.2% Symbian^1 Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
<snip>
#68 0.0% S60 3.0 Nokia N93
=============================
4 Symbian^3 models: 16.3%
12 Symbian^1 models: 39%
51 S60 3rd edition: 44%
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25 S60 3.2 models: 18.5%
13 S60 3.1 models: 20.6%
13 S60 3.0 models: 4.9%
-----------------------------
1 unknown models: 0.3%
=============================
68 total models: 99.6%
=============================

Ignoring the unknown:
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4 Symbian^3 models: 16.3%
12 Symbian^1 models: 39.1%
51 S60 3rd ed. models: 44%
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25 S60 3.2 models: 18.6%
13 S60 3.1 models: 20.7%
13 S60 3.0 models: 4.9%
=============================
67 total models: 99.6%
=============================

Step 4. To generate a chart for several months, download gnuplot and stick it in your PATH. (Tested with gnuplot version 4.4.0.)

Step 5. Edit ovid.plt to set a title for your chart.

Step 6. Run ovid.bat. This runs ovid.pl on all the .tsv files. There’s usually at least one unknown model: “Unresolved”. If you get any others, the missing models need adding to the lists at the top of ovid.pl. Please let me know and I’ll update the script as well.

If you use this, please post links to your charts too!

* Portions of this page are reproduced from work created and shared by the Android Open Source Project and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License.

Originally posted on Hugo van Kemenade’s Forum Nokia Blog.