It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Report, based on April 1 – April 26 data. This monthly report focuses on the Apple App Store for the iPad and iPhone in the United States. The major findings are: The number of applications in the Apple App Store for iPad has grown to 4,870 [...]
This Monday, Lonely Planet decided to offer 13 of their iPhone city guides for free to stranded travelers, In response to the widespread chaos caused by the volcano eruption in Iceland. These apps normally are priced between $4.99 and $15.99. The apps will go back to their regular price today. On the last day of this promotion, Lonely [...]
One month ago we wrote about Ford’s launch of an in-car App Store. According to Mashable, Ford annouced an upgrade of the SYNC platform enabling to control Android and Blackberry apps by voice commands. The Ford SYNC platform already allowed drivers to bring nearly any mobile phone and some media players into their vehicle and operate them [...]
According to crackberry, a website aimed to Blackberry users, the terms and conditions of Blackberry App World are updated. With the new terms, carrier- and credit card billing will be possible in the near future as annouched at the BlackBerry Developers Conference in November 2009. Until now, only payments via the PayPal platform were possible. [...]
The Opera Mini Web Browser was approved April 13th and became available for users on the Apple App Store soon after. The app climbed the rankings quickly and is now the #1 free application in 69 countries (out of 90). These are the stats as of now: Ranked in the Top Overall free in 86 [...]
Only a few days ago we wrote about new monetizing methods on the 360 platform. As it seems now, Vodafone wants to get a piece of the Android application sales as well, by opening the Android App Shop on their 360 platform. To build and maintain this store, Vodafone made a deal with Arvato Mobile, [...]
There’s been a lot of commotion in the news around the latest version of Apple’s iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. Yesterday, we talked to Paul Boutin from VentureBeat regarding the question whether Apple is changing the rules on iPhone app analytics. This discussion started because of a new section in the developer agreement that would [...]
In two weeks The Next Web Conference will be held in Amsterdam. This is the fifth edition of the three day event that brings together Europe and US audience to discuss the future of the web. We are excited to announce that Distimo will be presenting during the startup rally. See the full agenda of all speakers [...]
Vodafone’s 360 app store was launched last September and offers a collection of mobile widgets to Vodafone subscribers in eight countries. Initially, developers could only offer free applications. Now Vodafone announced the support to publishing paid apps on the 360 platform. Developers can publish paid apps in one or more of the eight supported European countries. Application [...]
Apple announced iPhone OS 4 yesterday April 8. Among all new features of the new OS and the new iAds platform, CEO Steve Jobs also shared some numbers about the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch: 300,000 iPads were sold the first day; 450,000 iPads were sold through today (April 8.) 250,000 iBooks were downloaded in [...]