More than half a billion (£581 million) is spent by UK consumers via apps
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Half a billion a year spent on apps in the UK
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iPad apps outnumber Ovi, BlackBerry and Windows combined
Apple now has over 300,000 iPhone apps in the US, more than twice the nearest competitor according to February’s Distimo figures The latest Distimo report for Feb 2011 looks in depth at the Mac app store and has some interesting things to say about Mac desktop app users versus Apple mobile app users. Distimo reports…
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Android apps to outpace iOS by mid-2012
The App Genome project has measured a huge growth in the number of Android apps since August 2010 The App Genome Project is a survey by mobile security app business Lookout (they produce the rather good SmrtGuard iPhone/Android/BlackBerry/Windows app) and the latest figures culled from 500,000 users across the iOS and Android platforms in the…
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Martin Sorrell “apps still only touching the tip of the iceberg”
Businesses need to embrace mobile to succeed as the use of applications continues to boom, according to Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP. In a speech at Mobile World Congress 2011 Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of advertising giant WPP, noted that the average Apple user has 60 applications across devices such as the iPhone, iPad…
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Two million Windows 7 phones in the channel
Microsoft’s senior product manager Greg Sullivan said in an interview with Bloomberg that it sold over 2 million Windows Phone 7 devices to carriers and retail partners last quarter. The weasel words here are “to carriers and retail partners” this is not the number sold, there could be 1.9 million boxes sat around unsold in…
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Mobile ad platform Flurry gets a cash injection
There’s money in those mobile ad hills! Just a day after new ad platform MoPub received seed funding, smartphone application ads and analytics platform Flurry, gets $15 million in Series C round financing. The round was led by US Venture capitalists Menlo Ventures and included existing investors, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, InterWest, First Round Capital and Union…
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iPad app market now 14% of total Apple app store market
Distimo’s regular US monthly app report is out for the month of October and it shows that Apple app developers appear to be prone to cheating on their old-faithful iPhone with the new high-class rich thing in town the iPad. Distimo found that the proportion of iPad-only applications outgrew the proportion of universal applications during…
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revenues from mobile content and applications in the US will reach $10 billion by 2015
A new study by Juniper Research estimates that revenues from mobile content and applications in North America will reach $10 billion by 2015 up from $4.0 billion in 2009 as mobile users in the region continue to migrate to smartphones. The North American Mobile Market report finds that despite the decline in mobile music as a…
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Android adding new countries to paid apps
Android developers have received an email with the good news that more markets are arriving, the bad news is they’re not saying which. If you selected to publish your paid apps in all locations then this is for you. The email (below) sent from the Android Market Team on 24 September tells developers that Android…
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Samsung’s app store achieves 10M downloads in Europe
Samsung is claiming its application store has passed the 10 million download mark in Europe, and it seems to be doing it off the back of games apps. The top three most popular Samsung Apps downloaded in Europe are Need for Speed Shift, Magic Torch and My Mirror. Need for Speed Shift is a car…
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Facebook is the king of apps
Nielsen has launched the first update to its Nielsen App Playbook study, and to celebrate they’re sharing some of the data for free. The most recent version of the study has just been released and it is based on an August 2010 survey of more than 4,000 US mobile subscribers who had reported downloading a…
Analysis, News
FT iPad app hits 400,000 downloads
Those who think the iPad and apps in general are just vanity products would have done well to listen to the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning. The iPad is far from a vanity product, it’s also a key way of making revenue. The FT’s Editor Lionel Barber speaking on the Today programme said…
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500,000 mobile apps are downloaded daily
New research from Borrell Associates finds that users don’t hold on to their apps According to Borrell Associates, worldwide we’re download some 500,000 apps per hour, unfortunately for developers and brands around the world, most of those apps are quickly discarded by consumers. The appallingly badly named report “Mobile Applications: Preparing for the App-ocalypse”, shows…
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Vogue slims down for iPad edition
Conde Nast is launching iPad apps for Vogue and Wired
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US mobile owners are downloading apps but not using them
A new extensive Pew Internet study on apps and their usage has come up with some stats that may worry developers out there. Yes, users are downloading apps, but relatively few users then subsequently use the apps. Which is oK if you’re planning on making revenues from a paid app, but disappointing if you’re planning…
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Everyone is downloading apps, but they aren’t searching
Smartphones – not just iPhones – are encouraging users to download apps if new figures from Nielsen are to be believed, however none of them appear to be using search to find them. A new Nielsen survey shows that as of June 2010, 59% of smartphone owners and nearly 9% of feature phone owners report…
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Consumers to become more accepting of in-app ads
Consumer demand for mobile applications will wear down resistance to in-app mobile ads, propelling the North American market to $2 billion by the end of the year, according to a new report by Parks Associates. The report Monetizing Downloadable Mobile Applications shows North American in-app ad revenue will surpass $860 million in 2014 and paid…
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Happy 14 millionth app birthday Samsung
We’re still none the wiser to how many apps Samsung has on Bada, but thanks to Samsung US we now know they have had 14 million downloads of their apps. Samsung has marked the first anniversary of its Samsung Apps store by announcing that since the launch of Wave in June 2010 (the first smartphone…
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Microsoft to give developers cash for apps
Microsoft are going to be boosting the number of apps developed for the Windows Phone 7 platform, by paying developers to develop for the platform and compensating developers who don’t make as much as they expect. But will this be enough? When you decide to build an application on a particular platform there are a…
News, Video
Google makes Android app creation simple
Google has launched the Android App Inventor, it’s intended as a quick way of producing Android phone apps for non-technical and non-programmers ie 99.9% of the population, and from what we can see it’s really quite easy to use. The app is aimed at schools but there’s no reason why it can’t be used by…