It is our pleasure to release our monthly Distimo Report, based on January 2010 data. This monthly report focuses on Games in Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store and Windows Marketplace for Mobile in the United States. The major findings are: Games on Windows Marketplace for Mobile and BlackBerry [...]
In the past few days a lot of buzz went around about the removal of more or less explicit sexual content apps from the Apple App Store. Apps like Wooble iBoobs, were removed from the store while other explicit apps like the Playboy app remained. In total 5,000 apps, are said to be pulled away. [...]
Today independent app store PocketGear announced the acquisition of Handango. The new combination will be a provider of smartphone applications globally for the BlackBerry, Palm, Windows Mobile, Symbian OS, and Linux platforms, with over 140,000 applications in their library from more than 32,000 developers. According to PocketGear’s CEO Jud Bowman: Our vision is to facilitate [...]
We just got back from an amazing week at the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona. This congress organized by the GSM Association saw that more than 49,000 visitors from 200 countries attending this years four-day conference and exhibition. During the congress, many major players in the mobile industry announced their newest products and plans [...]
Ericsson tries with a new white label appstore, aimed at carriers, to get a piece of the fast growing mobile phone application market. Hans Vestberg (CEO) announced the eStore at the MWC in Barcelona, a multiple platform store starting with a library of 30,000 apps, both paid and free. Carriers can add the store to [...]
As expected Microsoft announced yesterday, on Mobile World Congress, their new Mobile OS and rebranded it from Windows Mobile 7 to Windows Phone. Microsoft rebuilt the OS from the ground up and scrapped almost everything from the look and feel down to the code. The OS will look quite like the interface already in place [...]
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a number of the world’s leading telecommunications operators and device manufacturers launched an open global alliance to compete with appstores like the Apple App Store and Google Android Market. The alliance, consisting of 24 carriers, including large operators like Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and NTT DoCoMo while handset manufacturers LG, [...]
Today Adobe announced at the Mobile World Congress that they are going to extend their AIR platform to mobile devices, helping out many mobile developers facing problems with deployment on multiple platforms. AIR runtime lets developers use web technologies to build rich Internet applications that run outside the browser on multiple operating systems. Today at [...]
Sprint and GetJar announced that the GetJar catalog is now available on the Sprint portal for most Sprint handsets. According to VentureBeat, the companies don’t pay each other anything. Instead GetJar monetizes by enabling developers to buy downloads, while Sprint now offers a free service to their consumer base. Interestingly, Handmark powers Sprint’s Digital Lounge. [...]
There are currently over 30 mobile app stores and this number continues to grow. The latest addition is Amazon, as it aims to bring applications to the Kindle via its store. Distimo tracks all of these stores on a daily basis and we decided to sit down with several developers who have day-to-day experience in [...]