Tag: Windows

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…

App figures round up – Android now number two

We’re just doing some work on applications here at Business Mobile for a business partner, and part of that is to try and see the size of the market, so we went hunting  for figures on the number of applications in the wild. Unfortunately we just couldn’t find a single place with good figures that…

Smartphone sales accounted for 19% of worldwide mobile device sales

According to new figures from Gartner, mobile sales and smartphones sales continue to grow in the second quarter of 2010. Gartner’s latest figures show smartphone sales to end users accounted for 19% of worldwide mobile device sales, an increase of 50.5% from the second quarter of 2009, while worldwide mobile sales to end users totaled…

Windows developers can now build iPhone apps

One of the main drawbacks for the “truly” mass market development of iPhone apps has been the iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit) which you need to write an test an iPhone app. The problem with the SDK are; a) it’s only available on a Mac b) it’s an Apple proprietary version of programming language C…