We are gearing towards this year’s edition of the Barcelona Mobile World Congress. The show, which is attended by over 60,000 visitors, is taking place from February 27 to March 1st 2012. Since our launch in May 2009, we have been participating in every MWC. Looking at the heating up of pre-MWC announcements and party lists, we [...]
The GSMA today announced nominees for the 17th annual Global Mobile Awards. The winners will be presented on Tuesday, 28th February at the GSMA Mobile World Congress. In total, 158 nominees have been shortlisted for this year’s Global Mobile Awards; the full list of nominees and awards categories can be found here. Market data for the [...]
Yesterday I noticed something strange in my own behavior to get an app on the desktop. I wanted to download a video app for the Mac, went into Google, searched, and downloaded one. After firing up the app, I started to wonder what comparable stuff would be in the Mac App Store. Then it occurred to me that I [...]
If you are a frequent visitor, you know that this blog is our standard outlet to report lastest findings on the apps market. We try to dig into our data and extract the most relevant trends at any given time, communicated either via our monthly publications or as blog posts. Since we are a numbers [...]
Verizon is hosting this year’s developer conference on September 13 and 14 in Las Vegas. The theme of the show is “Meet the machine – innovation to get your app in gear”: The Verizon Developer Community invites you to get a look at the inner workings of The Machine – a massive, fluid structure designed [...]
Appsterdam is a very active community of developers which was kicked off over the last months by Mike Lee. It hosts a large selection of developer events and a weekly lunch lecture. This week Gert Jan Spriensma will be joining the Wednesday Lunchtime Lectures to talk about four major market shifts and what this means [...]
As announced at the Google I/O conference last May, Google is now rolling out In-App Purchases for web applications. The in-app purchase business model is on the high-rise for mobile apps. Following the introduction of in-app purchases in the Android Market last March, this is now also available for web developers in the Chrome Web [...]
A finding from one of our recent publications was that the refresh rate of top application charts is significantly higher in the Apple App Store for iPhone than in the Google Android Market. During the month of April, there were 94 distinct applications with a top 10 position in the Apple App Store for iPhone in [...]
Last April we reported that Google was adding support for manufactures and carriers to have their own section of promoted applications within the Android Market. Sony Ericsson was the first player to offer such a channel and now Vodafone is following as well. An interesting move, considering the fact that Vodafone already offers an own app store [...]
We just gave a presentation at Mobile 2.0 Europe in Barcelona, titled “Market Shifts In Content Distribution”. This goes into four major shifts we identify in the current mobile content distribution landscape: Traditional business models are no longer in the lead App store content leaders of today are not those of tomorrow Impact of Asian countries on the [...]
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