After the introduction of the official Chinese currency, the Yuan (CNY), in the Apple App Store, the download volumes in the Apple App Store China have grown significantly. The download volume of paid applications in the Chinese top 100 has almost doubled after the 18th of November, the day Apple introduced the Yuan. The growth [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. The latest Distimo monthly report is a recap of one year Windows Phone 7 Marketplace and covers the story of an emerging application store and the behavior of developers in the store. The key findings from this report are: Paid applications in the Windows Phone [...]
Good news for developers! Today, Apple announces to support payments with the Chinese Yuan in the Apple App Store. Chinese citizens are now able to purchase applications in their own currency rather than to pay in USD. Apple’s move can be explained in two ways. First, the download volume of paid content might increase in [...]
Since the Korean government has lifted the ban on games in the Apple App Store for iPhone, games have been invading the Korean Top Overall. In less than a week, 43% of the top 100 free content is published as a game. This proportion is even higher for paid content, 50%. In the top 10 [...]
Google regularly releases a chart concerning the distribution of Android platforms amongst active devices. According to the newest chart, which came out last week, Gingerbread has overtaken Froyo in terms of market share. The histotical distribution clearly shows the very steady increase of Gingerbread (2.3) throughout the past 6 months, and at the same time [...]
This morning, the Korean government lifted the ban on iPhone games. For a long time, no game category existed in the Korean Apple App Store due to concerns from the country’s Game Rating Board. The Game Rating Board desired to rate every game in the Apple App Store because it raised concerns about the possible [...]
The partnership between Vodafone and Appia resulted this week in the establishment of a new application store in India, Egypt and South Africa. The new store names Vodafone Mobile Application Store and serves over 145 million subscribers. More than 10,000 free and paid applications will be included in this store for major mobile operating systems such as [...]