For the upcoming Mobile World Congress, the GSMA is hosting two App Challenges for developers; the Band App Audition and Brand App Challenge. With these initiatives developers are challenged to create the best innovate apps for a selection of well-known bands and consumer brands. From the GSMA press releases: Band App Audition – develop the app [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Report. This report covers the Apple App Store for iPad, the Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile (Windows Mobile 6.x) during October 2010 in the United States. Data on Windows [...]
Acer announced that it will launch its application store next month. The store is called Acer Alive and will offer a range of content types, from applications to music, movies and ebooks. The store will initially be launched in the UK and Italy this December, and will be rolled-out to more countries in the first quarter [...]
During the past three days, the 2010 GSMA Mobile Asia Congress was held in Hong Kong. Next to our presentation on monetization, Distimo also worked together with the GSMA to compile a list of the most successful applications of 2010. The press release announcing the winners of Asia Mobile Awards 2010 is below. We would [...]
We are at the App Planet Forum during the Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong. During the session “Economics of the App Marketplace”, our presentation focussed on some of our findings on monetization in application stores: In-App Purchases are successful: while just 2 percent of all applications available in the Apple App Store for iPhone [...]
We just released a new version of Distimo Monitor, our free appstore analytics tool for application publishers. We would like to share the most important new features and updates with you! Distimo Monitor Mobile You can now analyze the performance of your applications on the road with Distimo Monitor Mobile! This mobile web application is optimized for [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Report. This report covers the Apple App Store for iPad, the Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World (worldwide), Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile for the period April – October 2010 in the United States. The [...]