The Nokia mobile platforms might have lost one music service today, but it’s soon gaining another. Today we’re announcing that Cutehacks is developing the mobile client of WiMP (by Aspiro) for the Symbian platform. We’re going to use Qt and Qt Quick, which will make it pretty easy to provide the service for any coming MeeGo handsets as well. We’re focusing on Symbian^3 at the moment, but may later extend backwards to older Symbian platforms if there is a demand.
If you don’t know what WiMP is, think of it as a direct competitor to Spotify. It is basically a streaming music service that, for a monthly subscription, gives you access to all the music of the world. It’s even got Pink Floyd (which Spotify doesn’t). You can see some screenshots and read more about WiMP here. Wimp is already available on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android – so it is high time we bring it to the Nokia platforms as well. We are very pleased to get this project and are looking forward to working together with the guys at Aspiro.
We’re hoping for a relase this half of 2011, but that is up for Aspiro to decide so stay tuned for more news 
Also, we’ve gotten some media coverage here in Norway already. Check out these article in digi.no (norwegian / english) and amobil.no (norwegian / english). Oh, and those are Google Translate english, so don’t complain to me if it’s messed up 
Anways, exciting times for us here at Cutehacks!
Yesterday I was presenting (covered here by 
Sveinung had a really interesting talk about the different apps that apps.no had launched and how they had fared in the market. He was very frank and open about everything and I really enjoyed the talk. Our business idea is basically same as them, make own apps + consult and make apps for others, so it was really good to hear from someone that was already doing this, and succeeding. Here are the numbers:
Peter from Rovio talked about their insane success with the Angry Birds game. It’s been the top selling game for the iPhone for over 5 months, thats more than anyone else – ever. They have sold, at least, 7 million copies of it on the Apple App Store for the iPhone only, more if you add iPad. They launched in December 2009, and since then have had a crazy ride.
Rovio is aiming for 100 million downloads of Angry Birds – they call it the “Tetris strategy”. And they might succeed – when they released the Android version a few days ago, they had 2-3 million downloads in as many days. Wow.
The last talk I attended was about HTML5 apps. Nikolai had a very enthusiastic talk about HTML5 apps, and how that was not a utopian dream, but actually a reality already. I think his talk clearly showed it is not quite there yet. The fact that for the iPhone, to use bluetooth support in an HTML5 app, you have to jailbrake it and write a platform spesific extension for PhoneGap speaks for itself.
