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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Since recently, Google added a new rich snippets feature, application reviews. Google already displays reviews for videos, events and music in its search engine. Now, users can view detailed application information in the search results as well. With this new rich snippet, users directly know that this search results contains an applications and includes an [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This month’s publication focuses on the global differences in mobile app stores including content localization (local apps that are only published in one country) and differentiated user preferences around the world. In this publication, the importance of localized content will be analyzed across the major mobile [...]
We have just come back from the Verizon Developer Community Conference in Las Vegas. At the conference we gave a presentation titled: “Pricing for success: app industry trends and best practices.” The presentation covered the latest trends in application pricing and monetization and how developers can best respond to these trends. The three main topics [...]
While two of our team members are visiting Verizon Developer Conference in Las Vegas, Verizon announces to relaunch a new Android App store, “Verizon Apps”. Special feature of this new appstore will be the use of Chomp’s app search engine. Chomp’s search software bases its search not only on what the applications are called, it [...]
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