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. The major findings are: 96 applications have been downloaded more [...]
Your application name should be unique as search engines, both in store as on the web, are an important traffic driver. Or you take the opposite approach and take advantage of popular (high traffic) keywords in the app stores. Therefore, here at Distimo, we dove into the data in order to give more insight into [...]
Most of the largest app stores now also offer users the ability to browse, purchase and install apps on their phone from their desktop. The Apple App Store for iPhone & iPad (view applications only), BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market and Nokia Ovi Store all offer web storefronts. So does Microsoft’s Windows 6.5 Marketplace, but this [...]
Microsoft has announced that 15 July 2011, developers will no longer be able to submit new apps to its Windows Marketplace for Mobile, its store for products targeting Windows Mobile 6.5 devices: While apps will still be available for sale, it will not be possible to modify prices, metadata or other information, and apps can [...]
In early 2010, Samsung added support for its TVs in the Samsung App Store. Now Samsung announced that it has seen 5 million downloads of TV apps. This might seem like a large number, but when taking into account the total timeframe it took to reach this milestone, the impact is not that heavy. Since [...]
Today we are pleased to announce our partnership with international games market research firm Newzoo to provide unique monthly data on game sales and downloads across all Apple App Stores. In this partnership we will combine the demographics of worldwide gamers that Newzoo collects through its Gamers Surveys with in-depth app store data from Distimo focused [...]
On June 7 and 8, the Mobile App World conference will be held in London. This two day conference is completely focused on mobile apps for an audience of brands, app developers, app marketing specialists, device manufacturers and platform owners: The timing of Mobile App World 2011 couldn’t be more perfect. This year is going [...]
Each month Google discloses the version distribution to inform publishers what the utility of developing for a speicific version could be. In the past months a trend towards a general adoption of Android 2.x could be observed and as of May 2nd, the majority of the devices operate on Android 2.2. 24.5% of the devices [...]