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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We noticed that many developers turn to Quora to validate mobile business plans, estimate market sizes or plan promotions more efficiently. At Distimo we gather a lot of data that is relevant to those developers. Therefore we decided to start tracking Quora and answer those questions for which we have data that we can share. [...]
Last Friday Apple released its App Store Rewind for 2011, where the most downloaded content of this year is highlighted. Next to music, movies and TV shows, Rewind 2011 covers Apple App Store for iPhone, Apple App Store for iPad and Mac App Store. Some noteworthy findings It’s interesting to see that 77 of the 100 apps in [...]
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 [...]
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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