Google and Apple are in a building race for the loyalties of content providers and developers using their respective application stores. While the iPhone has the largest app store, Google recently overtook Nokia and other phone manufacturers with the largest … Continue reading
Mobile devices powered by Google’s Android operating system have made high-significant gains over the last 12 months, Gartner researchers say. Where Android’s global market share was 1.7 percent in 2009, it now has grown to more than 17 percent, Gartner … Continue reading
Apple and Android’s mobile app stores will account for 78 percent of all mobile app store downloads this year, with Apple getting 52 percent share of app downloads, according to ABI Research. Revenues from mobile app sales continue their decline, … Continue reading
Consumers generally don’t like the hassle of entering credit card numbers on a mobile, to make a purchase, especially for relatively small amounts. Android Market now allows purchases of applications from the market to be billed directly to the user’s … Continue reading
Though many feared Apple would essentially freeze out other third-party mobile ad networks from its iPad and iPhone ecosystem, that does not seem to have happened, according to Omar Hamoui, founder and CEO of Google’s AdMob division. Apple inserted language … Continue reading
Whatever else you might say about mobile app stores, they have dramatically changed mobile software distribution patterns, a study by Vision Mobile, sponsored by Telefonica, has found. In fact, market channels that were once mainstream, pre-2008, today represent only a … Continue reading
Mobile application downloads generated by third-party application stores will grow by a compound annual growth rate of around 41 percent globally over the next five years, with total downloads almost reaching 21.3 billion by 2015, up from 2.69 billion in … Continue reading
You probably have seen statistics indicating that a typical mobile app gets used for perhaps a month, and then usage declines dramatically over the following two months. One reason is that so many mobile apps are either pieces of content … Continue reading
German-based company apprupt now offers developers a “do it yourself” way to add storefront functionality to any mobile publication. Claiming to be the first “affiliate network” for apps, apprupt has announced the launch of a complete self-service platform for application … Continue reading
The Apple App Store has sold about $1.43 billion worth of apps over the last two years, paid developers a billion dollars. Today, though, “the math simply does not add up” for developers expecting to make the most money for … Continue reading