Last weekend, Windows Phone 7 Marketplace surpassed the 60K active applications milestone worldwide. Main contributor to this fact is the strong growth of new applications in January, where around 3000 new applications were added per week. Another notable fact is that Windows Phone 7 Marketplace overtook BlackBerry App World in terms of available applications globally. [...]
The age rating systems are a major issue in some countries for applications stores. No global or united age rating system is established yet among the major application stores, despite attempts by the CTIA Wireless. Therefore, we wondered whether similar apps have different age ratings across the two largest application stores: Apple App Store for [...]
Google Android Market gave itself a nice new year’s present last weekend. The total number of active applications worldwide in the Android Market reached the 400,000 milestone. Android Market has topped the 200K and 300K available apps milestones in April and August 2011 respectively. The main contributors to reach this milestone are free applications. Roughly, [...]
The download volume of apps in the Apple App Store (United States) saw a dramatic increase this Christmas weekend. The download volume on Christmas Day increased by 230% compared to December’s daily average. On the 26th of December this was a 120% increase. These calculations are based on transactional data gathered via Distimo Monitor, which represents [...]
Interview with Christopher Forsythe, CEO at The Growl Project Since the release of the Apple Mac App Store in January 2011, the store’s top charts have mainly been dominated by Apple’s own apps, such as Pages and Mac OS X Lion. This hegemony ended in October, with the introduction of Growl in the Mac Store. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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