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Year 2007 in numbers: the birth and adolescence of Nokia Beta Labs

Wed, 2008-01-02 12:00

Quite a many of you have asked me to show some numbers and trends about Beta Labs. Here you go...

Application portfolio


Most popular applications of 2007: (measured by traffic & downloads)

• Conversation


• Device Status


• Nseries PC Suite 2.0


• Gizmo


• Sports Tracker

Web traffic

• Year 2007 in total: 1 754 079 page views and 545 006 visits.


• December 2007: 460 748 page views and 144 204 visits.

Downloads


EMEA = Europe, Middle-East and Africa; APAC = Asia and Pacific; AMER = Americas

• Year 2007 in total: 319 123 downloads.


• December 2007: 87 022 downloads.

Note: only files that are hosted under www.nokia.com/betalabs website are included in the statistics above. Some of our projects have used different download infrastructure, therefore not included in the statistics.

Feedback
Unfortunately, we don't have history data about your feedback, as we didn't start counting it systematically until 5 December. Anyway, the amount of feedback has skyrocketed. So far there have been 867 Beta Labs blog comments, hundreds of application review blog posts linking back to us, and thousands of private feedback items through feedback forms etc. Now, as all of this goes directly to the development teams (everything gets read), increasingly they don't have time to reply to you. Consequently, some of you have grumbled about us not listening, but that's not the case. We love you, and we live on your feedback. Not-replying is just the unfortunate cost of cutting out all the middlemen between you and the developers. Hope you understand.

To sum up, 2007 was the year when Nokia Beta Labs was born and got ramped up. There are lots of things that we still need to do, but already now, things look really good. Thanks everybody for your attention and contribution!!