It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This report offers an extensive analysis about two important stores for the Android platform: the Google Android Market and the Amazon Appstore. This report dives into the number of apps and the growth in available applications in the store. We also analyze differences in pricing and [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This report gives an overview of the effects when an application is featured in the Apple App Store for iPhone, Apple App Store for iPad and Google Android Market. Moreover, this report shows the effects that occur when applications are put on sale. We conclude with [...]
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, [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This report will give an overview of the most important developments in the mobile app stores in 2011. How did the store sizes develop over the last year? Which store generates most revenue nowadays? What are the most downloaded apps of 2011? These questions will be [...]
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 [...]
Last Friday an update has been announced for Google TV, which includes the Android Market. The new software is due beginning of this week. The update promises UI experience enhancements and new features as well. The interface is said to be simpler, and an improved search should make browsing content even easier. A new YouTube [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This report focuses on brands (as defined by the Interbrand 2011 Best Global Brands report) and how they perceive the fragmented app store space. The major findings from this report are: Brands have realized that publishing applications in the various app stores offers a viable channel to [...]
According to several sources, Google Android Market is unavailable for Chinese users. Over the last 48 hours Android’s applications market cannot be reached from China. The same is the case with Gmail applications on smartphones. Gmail still works on the computer. It is likely that the Chinese government imposed this blockage on Google services. In the [...]
Last Monday, Distimo was pleased to be speaking at the first Mobile Monday Athens. At this event, we gave a presentation titled: “Analyzing the application stores – Users, apps, growth, and more.” The presentation covered four major trends in the app store eco system. Among others, a change in content leadership and the changing impact [...]
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