It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This publication covers the Apple App Store for iPad, Apple App Store for iPhone, Mac App Store, BlackBerry App World, GetJar, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog, and Windows Phone 7 Marketplace in the United States. The major findings are: The Google Android [...]
Yesterday KPN, a leading carrier in The Netherlands, published its 2010 fourth quarter results. One of the widely discussed results was a decline in SMS revenues of 10% within one year. This decrease was caused by “changing consumer behavior, where mobile apps provide a data based alternative to the regular voice and SMS services”. Apps like [...]
Today, Nokia and Microsoft have signed their definitive agreement to jointly build a “new global mobile ecosystem”. This deal has been discussed widely, but we’d like to highlight the most important aspects for mobile developers that distribute applications on one or both of the companies current platforms. Nokia will get a Windows Marketplace powered app store, with Symbian apps Nokia [...]
We already had customer review support for Apple App Store and Google Android Market. From now on we also import reviews from BlackBerry App World and Nokia Ovi Store! Review Features Browse reviews by appstore, app, rating and label. Label your reviews with custom labels like: ‘bug’ or ‘feature’. View rating distribution. Automated translation. Share [...]
It is rumored that Apple tweaked its App Store rankings algorithm to factor in more than pure download numbers. In order to see if the reported rank changes of for example Facebook and Skype indeed indicate a change in the ranking algorithm, we performed a small data driven research. When looking at the top 50 [...]
Since yesterday, Sony Ericsson is offering their own section of promoted applications within Android Market to their device users worldwide. The menu spot that normally is reserved for “My Apps” in the Android Market is replaced with a Sony Ericsson section. Currently the manufacturer is promoting applications developed by themselves. It is expected that Google [...]
Microsoft is said to be working on an app store for the upcoming Windows 8. Now some early screenshots became available with early designs, though the sources indicated that they have not yet been able to confirm their authenticity. While not confirmed by Microsoft, it would be a very logical step to integrate an app [...]