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(PRNewsFoto/Comscore Networks) RESTON, Va., Feb. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending December 2010. The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms in the U.S. according to their share of current mobile subscribers ages 13 and older, and reviewed the most popular activities and content accessed via the subscriber's primary mobile phone. The December report found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 24.8 percent market share, while RIM led among smartphone platforms with 31.6 percent market share.
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Share on Twitter January 27, 2011 According to market research firm Gartner, the mobile apps market today represents some very serious money and it projects app revenues to top US $15 billion by the end of 2011. And by 2014, Gartner predicts that mobile app stores will generate over $85 billion in revenue globally. If you consider that the very first app store opened only in July 2008, the growth trajectory has been absolutely phenomenal, and dwarfs the most optimistic predictions made at that time. Research2guidance. Says Consumers Will Spend $6.2 Billion in Mobile Application Stores in 2010. Egham, UK, January 18, 2010 View All Press Releases.
App Stores Are Big Business: $7 Billion in 2010. According to the analysts at research firm Gartner, mobile application stores are expected to generate revenues of nearly $7 billion over the course of this year.
That figure is a combination of the $6.2 billion spent purchasing the mobile applications themselves combined with an additional $.6 billion generated through advertising revenues from in-app ads. Not surprisingly, Apple dominates this market, accounting for 99.4% of the market as of last year, states the report. Over the course of 2009, mobile application download revenue exceeded $4.2 billion, with eight out of every 10 apps downloaded offered free to end users, says Gartner. Going forward, the analysts predict mobile application stores' revenue will grow to $29.5 billion by the end of 2013.
That revenue, again, will be a combination of paid applications and free applications running ads. 3 Billion in Apple App Sales? Gruber notes that Apple didn't actually announce 3 billion in sales, they announced 3 billion downloads. Mobile App Marketplace: $17.5 Billion by 2012. According to a study commissioned by mobile application store operator GetJar, the mobile application market will reach $17.5 billion by 2012.
By then, the number of mobile application downloads will have also grown to nearly 50 billion from just over 7 billion in 2009. Although those numbers may seem high, they line up with other estimates, such as those previously reported by analysts at both Gartner and research2guidance. The GetJar study, run by independent consulting firm by Chetan Sharma Consulting, noted that over the past year, the number of app stores grew from 8 to 38 and that there are even more in the works. Apple's iTunes store leads the way with a reported 150,000 mobile apps and 3 billion downloads to date.
Google's Android marketplace is growing fast as well, and now has more than 30,000 mobile applications that run on devices like the Droid, the myTouch 3G and the Nexus One, among others. Just the Stats: Analysts Agree: Apps are Big Business. Appbistro Announces Appstores.com White-label App Store Platform. App marketplace for Facebook pages Appbistro has expanded its scope today and announces its transition to Appstores.com.
Like a non-enterprise Appia, Appstores will offer publishers the ability to create their own app stores like a (hypothetical) or Says Appbistro founder Ryan Merket, “Every single company we talked to wanted their own app store.” So they made the decision to solve that problem. The Facebook-centric Appbistro platform will continue with business as usual and be one branch of the many pronged Appstores.com network. Merket says that he has no plans of charging publishers for the service and one idea for a potential revenue stream is sponsored placement across the network of app stores, for example if a developer wants to highlight his app on TechCrunch’s appstore.
Merket is working with a number of partners including SimpleGeo and Constant Contact in order to build a network of white-label appstores, with the premise of giving app developers distribution.