Only four months ago we reported that Google Play had hit the 400K milestone and now in the beginning of May Google Play already stocks more than 500K applications worldwide. This means that in only four months time over 100K applications have been added to the market. In the same period in the Apple App Store [...]
Last Friday, Distimo was pleased to be speaking at the Festival Of Games in Utrecht. At this event, we gave a presentation titled: “The Appstore Opportunity” . The presentation was aimed at Games developers and covers trends in monetization, changing impact of countries and stores. Moreover, more information about the top rankings is given and finally [...]
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. The recent one billion dollar acquisition of Instagram by Facebook signals a significant milestone in the app store landscape, and this month’s publication focuses on the riseof Instagram. This month, we also cooperated with Skylines to analyze how app usage compares to the number of downloads. Please [...]
Downloads by Country for Google Play Google now provides country specific download volumes for Google Play apps. With Distimo Monitor you can now find out in which countries your apps are generating the most downloads and discover new local market opportunities. Support for Samsung Apps If you’re developing for Bada or have Android apps in [...]
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 [...]
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