Samsung Smart TV App Store Reaches 1000 Apps & 10m Downloads
By Jonathan Sutton • Friday, 14 October 2011, 12:30 pm BST
Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung Electronics this week celebrated two major milestones for its HDTV-based app store, Samsung Apps. The application store for Samsung’s internet-connected Smart TV displays has now reached the first landmark of having one thousand registered apps, and a second even more impressive achievement of smashing through the ten million download barrier.
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The figures showed that the Samsung Apps store is growing both in terms of size and popularity among tech-hungry consumers. Topping the list of most downloaded apps were online video applications, which took the top spot both on a regional and an international basis. YouTube was the most popular Smart TV app in both South Korea and the United States according to the data.
In February of last year, Samsung became the first TV manufacturer in the world to launch a television-based app store. Since then the app store has gone from strength to strength, reaching five million downloads in May 2011, and growing by more than 100 percent in the space of just a few months to break the ten million barrier today. This has come about due to the number of downloads per day doubling compared to May of this year, having increased to an average of 50,000 downloads per day.
The data not only reflected the popularity of the Samsung Apps TV store, but also demonstrated how the number of active users of Smart TVs has grown. The Seoul-based conglomerate has been striving to create an ecosystem that provides a huge range of top quality content through collaborations with leading content providers, and it seems that users are lapping up the huge amount of choice and great content on offer.
Kang-hyun Kwon, Samsung’s senior vice president of media solutions centre, said that the company will continue to build on its success by seeking partnerships with more content providers who are also interested in bringing high quality apps to market.
While this is obviously good news for the tech hungry tv watchers, it is going to be interesting to see how much TV is actually viewed on a smart tv – do you think that there is in fact a potential for the smart tv to just turn into a place to play with apps, rather than sit and watch something?
As a owner of a samsung smart tv —-just like to say
1. if there are 1000 apps available they are proving elusive to find
2. The lovefilm app is appalling and just streams a film for 30 seconds and then freezes unusable– same goes for blinxbox- it is being fed by 50mbs and full strength signal.
please tell us where all these thousand apps my tv only has about 150 ish
@ Simma
Genau, wo sind die ganzen Apps. Nicht mal einen echten Browser gibt es!!!!
I have to say I am very disappointed. There are key tv apps missing for the UK like itvplayer and 4od. As pointed out in the last post, there is no browser to simply surf the internet. The 1000 apps has to be across all countries, but it seems that you are limited to the apps published by Samsung in your country. There are cases where apps may be limited to a country, e.g., iplayer is not legally allowed outside the UK. However, there are no such legal restrictions on the German ARD Mediathek being available in the UK. I want this on my Smart TV in the UK and there does not seem to be a way to get it.