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…
News
Average mobile app usage exceeds 11 hours a month
The fastest way to a smartphone user is via an app or messaging as new research shows smartphone users spend more time with their apps and messaging than they do on calls and web browsing. According to the study, commissioned by, the research arm of the GSMA, mobile apps are responsible for 667 minutes of…
Analysis, News
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…
Analysis, News
Games are still the dominant apps category
The latest Distimo report is out for Q3 2010 and it’s got lots of good information on how the app world is doing in the US. Especially the continued dominance of games as the top apps in nearly all app stores. The report covers the most popular applications in the Apple App Store for iPad,…
News
eBuddy hits 100 million app downloads
Dutch web and mobile instant messaging business eBuddy has passed the 100 million app downloads mark. A blog post from the firm confirms the figures and adds a quote from CEO and co-founder Jan-Joost “JJ” Rueb, “Reaching the 100 million mobile download milestone speaks not only to the popularity of mobile IM, but also to…
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Ovi Store hits 2.3 million downloads a day
Nokia’s Ovi Store seems to be in rude health if the blog post says what we think it says. According to Nokia the number of active Nokia Ovi service users has reached 140 million worldwide, with more than 200,000 people signing up daily to Ovi, with the Ovi Store reaching 2.3 million downloads per day.…
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Multitasking mobile and TV
Years ago there was anecdotal evidence to say that most mobile web browsing was done between 6-9pm and via wifi, as users flicked through the web while watching TV. And if you look at Twitter feeds for #xfactor #eastenders #corrie when the programmes are on, you’ll soon see evidence of mobile users twittering and watching.…
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Nokia provides app developers with new tools for Ovi
There’s been some interesting news from Nokia World 2010 over Ovi that should make app developers very happy. The first bit of good news is the usage statistics for its Ovi Store. Liz Schimel, VP of music services & connected entertainment, stated that Ovi Store now has 130 million active users globally, with 2 million…
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Tesco start their push for m-commerce on Ovi
According to stories in New Media Age Tesco has submitted a new application to Nokia for approval to join the Ovi Store and are going ahead with an Ovi m-commerce app ahead of an iPhone app. The new application, called Tesco Grocery App, is the first transactional application they have released for mobile and will…
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Mobile app market to be a two(ish) horse race by 2011
We love analysts reports at Bmob, but sometimes we just don’t agree, and the latest report from analysts ABI Research is a case in point. According to ABI Research they expect mobile application downloads from iOS and Android to account for 78% of all application downloads in 2010, with iOS taking the lion’s share of…
News
iPad apps have more in-app purchases than iPhone apps
The latest Distimo Report (July 2010 looking at June 2010) from app store analytics company Distimo looks in detail at app stores and how effective they are – particularly for in-app purchases. In the report Distimo looked at the Apple App Store for iPad and iPhone, BlackBerry App World (Worldwide), Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi…
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Apple beware, Android and Ovi are getting big
A couple of new snippets of info on the apps market released this week show that you’d be silly – nay stupid – just to concentrate all your efforts on building apps for the Apple platforms. There was plenty of big news for Android developers released at this week’s Google I/O jamboree in San Francisco’s…