GetJar: Mobile App Sales Will Overtake CD Sales By 2012 (Video + An independent study released this morning by neutral app store GetJar indicates that the market for mobile apps should grow to a whopping $17.5 billion within the next three years. This would basically mean that the value of apps sold would be greater than the value of CDs sold in 2012 ($13.83 billion). According to the same study, downloads of mobile apps to handsets will leap from slightly more than seven billion in 2009 to nearly 50 billion in 2012, representing a YOY growth of 92%. The figures are pretty much in line with other forecasts, such as research2guidance’s prediction that the worldwide smartphone application market will grow from $1.94 billion in 2009 to $15.65 billion by 2013.
GetJar had commissioned independent consulting firm Chetan Sharma Consulting to look into the global mobile apps market, in order to analyze the potential and real value of the mobile apps market worldwide, using first-hand data. As for the presentation slides: Smartphone Industry Pulse, February 2010. Flurry Smartphone Industry Pulse, February 2010 Posted by Peter Farago on Mon, Mar 15, 2010 Each month, Flurry leverages its data set collected from iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and J2ME applications to identify, study and share industry trends.
Flurry tracks over 20,000 live applications and over 2 billion user sessions each month. Applications that include Flurry Analytics have been downloaded to more than 80% of all iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices. I. Since the App Store launched in July 2008, 35,000 unique companies have released applications, which translates to 58 new companies launching apps each day. II. iPhone Developer DNA: O Brother, Where Art Thou (from) Thinking about the sheer number of developers with applications in the App Store, we had the practical question: where'd they all come from? 1. The pie chart below shows a breakdown of developers making top applications based on their heritage: Finally, we examine the News Category more closely: Applications iPhone : origine des développeurs, chiffres de Févr.
Le chemin qui menait vers vous. iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch : le blog iPhon.fr. L'AppStore iPhone et iPod Touch en chiffres - iPhone, iPad, iPod. Ce sont des données relatées par TechCrunch qui nous en disent plus sur l'AppStore d'Apple, avec aussi des comparaisons avec l'Android Market, avec des données US qui donnent néanmoins des indications globales.
En ce qui concerne le nombre total d'applications, on retient que l'AppStore propose 150 000 applications, en croissance de 13,865 applications en Janvier tandis que l'Android Market en propose actuellement environ 20 000, affichant une croissance de 3 005 applications en Janvier. Pour ce qui est du type d'applications, les jeux représentent pas moins de 58 % des applications. Les jeux de type Puzzlespèsent 15 %, les jeux d'action et d'arcade suivent avec chacun 11 % du total. Le prix moyen d'un jeu s'établit lui à 2,24 $, moins chers que les jeux Windows Mobiles ou BlackBerry, et juste un peu plus onéreux que les jeux Android.
L'AppStore propose ainsi 25 % d'applications gratuites tandis que l'Android Market lui en propose 57 %.