Get content! 200m downloads in 2 years...

200m downloads? Who is doing that, you say? Who do you reckon? Zed, Jamba, Thumbplay? No, not them. Getjar, a website featuring free mobile phone downloads (and a logo that cries out for a pro) announced that it recorded 200m downloads in 2 years of operation. See? Users do download content, so where's your problem? Well... the downloads are not paid for, you see? This makes for a somewhat warped business model...

So, whilst Getjar would certainly appear to prove that consumers are keen to download content and applications to their phones, it does not prove that they would be willing to pay for it. And with mobile advertising sluggish to make a commercially meaningful impact (at least from developers' point of view) that is somehow not so good really... Better then the Jamba's et al as they at least make money from it and pay their developers.

Congratulations to the good folks from Getjar anyhow. I hope at least you guys got a good numbers of clicks on your Google apps...