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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Together with the approaching release of our monthly publication, Distimo proudly presents three Paid Featured Reports. These reports offer deep insights into all major applications stores in North America, Europe and Asia. A single report can be purchased for the entry-level price of €399,-, with combinations of reports being discounted up to 20%. The three [...]
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 [...]
Mobile Monday in Athens will take place for the first time on the 3rd of October. MobileMonday – MoMo for short – is an open community platform for the mobile industry, where visionaries, ideas and mobile innovation meet. Distimo will be present, with Hendrik Koekkoek giving a speech on the topic Analyzing the Application Stores – [...]
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 [...]
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