Flurry: 1.2 Billion Mobile Apps Were Downloaded Over The Holidays. With nearly 7 million new Android phones and iPhones activated on Christmas Day, an app-downloading frenzy was a foregone conclusion. App research firm Flurry estimates that a combined total of 1.2 billion apps were downloaded during the holiday week between December 25-31. That compares to an average of 750,000 mobile apps downloaded per week earlier in December, or a 60 percent jump. This is the first time app downloads surpassed the one-billion mark in a single week. About little less than a quarter of those apps (242 million) were downloaded on Christmas Day itself.
The geographic breakdown is also notable, with the U.S> accounting for nearly half of all downloads (509 million), followed by China (99 million), and the UK (81 million). 6.8 Million Android And iOS Devices Were Activated on Xmas Day, 242 Million Apps Downloaded. It was a very Android and iOS Christmas. Mobile apps research form Flurry released estimates on how many Android and iOS devices were activated on Christmas day, as well as how many apps were downloaded. On a combined basis, 6.8 million devices were activated, up 353 percent from the 1.5 million average activations a day over the first 20 days of December. And that number from 2.8 million combined activations on Christmas, 2010, the previous record. Flurry doesn’t break out the split between iOS and Android. But you can triangulate the numbers with other publicly available stats. The big unanswered question is whether that 50/50 split continued on Christmas Day, or whether one OS or the other prevailed as the choice Christmas gadget gift.
In terms of apps, a record 242 million total apps were downloaded across both platforms, a 125 percent jump from the daily average earlier in December. Flurry expects a billon apps to be downloaded between Christmas and New Year’s Day. Apple: 100 Million Downloads From Mac App Store In Less Than One Year. Android Market experiencing 1 billion app downloads per month. Google’s Android Market has exceeded 10 billion application downloads, with users now downloading at a rate of one billion apps per month, the company announced Tuesday.
The download growth rate is rather incredible. Android Market experienced its first billion downloads in July 2010, and reached three billion downloads by March of this year. By July 2011, Android Market had surpassed six billion downloads. By comparison, Apple reported more than 18 billion app downloads in October. The Android Market is hot on its heels, and we’re not surprised. And you should expect the Android Market download figure to shoot up exponentially — and soon. Android Market does, however, face app download competition from a growing number of third-party Android app stores, including Amazon’s own Appstore for Android. Google is currently offering Android Market customers top Android apps at $0.10 a piece for the next 10 days to celebrate this achievement.
Press Info - Apple Reports Third Quarter Results. Total number of ipads sold. Total iPads sold « The path reaching 100. In 2010 the total iPads sold totaled over 14 million world-wide, the total tablet market rose to 19.7 million same year. David Zeiler said that the “research firm IHS iSuppli expects sales of media tablets”, which are mainly iPads, go from “17.4 million units world-wide in 2010 to 202 million in 2015″. The overall market, which include tablets and pc-tablets, will go from the 19.7 million in 2010 to 242.3 million in 2015. The forecast for 2011 of iPads sold rise to over 20 million units. The 2015 forecast in a first view could seem exaggerated, but if we consider that in the past CES show at Las Vegas 100 tablets were unveiled, well it is no such an exaggeration.
It is clear that not all will reach retail market but the hype is on going. Of this over 100 tablets 17 are exclusively eReaders, showing that the eBook trend is up and going and far away from a mere bubble waiting to burst and end, as some publishers may want. As I go deep researching, the numbers keep building up. Android tablets now represent 27% of total market | TabTimes. Tim Cook: ’300M iPods, 250M iOS Devices’ Sold, 6M Mac OS X Lion Downloads. Apple's CEO Tim Cook at yesterday's "Let's talk about iPhone" event in Cupertino, Calif. dropped some big news: the company has sold 250 million iOS devices.However, the biggest segment of this comes from the iPod, which commands a 78% percent market share in the personal media player business.
Cook said some 300 million iPods have […] Apple's CEO Tim Cook at yesterday's "Let's talk about iPhone" event in Cupertino, Calif. dropped some big news: the company has sold 250 million iOS devices. However, the biggest segment of this comes from the iPod, which commands a 78% percent market share in the personal media player business. Cook said some 300 million iPods have been sold around the world, and 45 million of them were sold in the year that ended in June. This is followed by the iPad, which has a 74% market share of the mobile tablet market.
Cook said 92% of Fortune 500 companies are testing or deploying iPads. However he didn't indicate whether those were separate purchases or not. Propelled by in-app purchases, mobile gaming revenue to hit $16 billion in 2016. Revenue from mobile gaming is expected to reach $16 billion in 2016, ABI Research said in a report released last week. ABI expects the growth, which is a big jump from the current $5 billion in revenue expected this year, to come from in-game purchases. “An ever-larger share of mobile gaming revenue is coming from virtual goods and other purchases that take place within the game,” ABI Research senior analyst Aapo Markkanen said.
“These in-app payments will account for about one-third of the 2011 revenue base, but by the end of 2016 their share will increase to almost half of the total. Also, the in-game advertising revenue will increase considerably, as more and more advertisers take advantage of mobile games’ mass-media potential.” Games such as Zynga’s Farmville and Capcom’s Smurf Village are examples of titles that rely heavily on in-game sales to produce revenue. The Flurry Blog - Mobile Application Analytics | iPhone Analytics | Android Analytics. Q3 ’11 Results: 220 Million iOS Devices Sold (So Far), Product Transition Coming. Mockups of iPad 3/HD which surfaced earlier today. During Apple’s Q3, 2011 conference call, in which the company announced record revenue of $28.57 Billion for the quarter just closed, alongside confirming tomorrow’s release of Mac OS X Lion, CFO, Peter Oppenheimer, opened the call by stating the company had sold a staggering 220 Million iOS-based devices thus far.
If that figure blows your mind, we should remind you that, during Apple’s Q1, 2011 conference call the company unveiled that it was selling 366,666 iOS devices per day at the time. The most interesting part of the call, however, was the line: “There is also a future product transition that we are not going to talk about today.” – @Bennomatic quoting Oppenheimer. Interesting to note, Oppenheimer claimed this transition would take place in Apple’s September quarter. One of the reasons the statement could relate to the iPhone is that it is now officially Apple’s largest selling product. Daily Updates. Android leads iOS in mobile app downloads. Out of all mobile app downloads in the third quarter of 2011, 44 percent were Android apps, making Android the market share leader over iOS’ 31 percent, according to data from ABI Research. The research firm attributed the large shipment of phones running Google’s Android operating system as the reason for the high market share.
The total number of Android devices activated worldwide has now reached 190 million (or an estimated 600,000 per day), according to Google. By comparison, growth in iPhone shipments fell for the second straight quarter — from 15 percent in the first quarter 2011 to nine percent in the second. Meanwhile Android’s shipment growth rose from 20 percent in the first quarter to 36 percent in the following quarter. Also worth noting from the research firm’s data is that Android’s installed base (the number of phones running Android) is 2.4 to 1 over devices running iOS. But number of downloads doesn’t necessarily mean Android is besting Apple. Console wars. Video game industry term In the video game industry, a console war describes the competition between two or more video game console manufacturers in trying to achieve better consumer sales through more advanced console technology, an improved selection of video games, and general marketing around their consoles.
While console manufacturers are generally always trying to out-perform other manufacturers in sales, these console wars engage in more direct tactics to compare their offerings directly against their competitors or to disparage the competition in contrast to their own, and thus the marketing efforts have tended to escalate in back-and-forth pushes. While there have been many console wars to date, the term became popular between Sega and Nintendo during the late 1980s and early 1990s as Sega attempted to break into the United States video game market with its Sega Genesis console. Background and etymology[edit] Sega versus Nintendo[edit] Background[edit] The second push in 1991[edit] Google announces 200 million Android devices activated, 550,000 every day.
Estimate: 90 Million U.S. Tablet Users By 2014; iPads Drop To 68% Share. By the end of the year, there will be an estimated 34 million tablet computer users in the U.S., according to new numbers out today from eMarketer. Of those, 28 million (or 83 percent) will be using an iPad. The iPad still rules the tablet world, jumping nearly 160 percent from an estimated 13 million users last year. By 2014, there will be an estimated 61 million iPad users in the U.S. But the iPad’s share of total tablet users will drop to 68 percent. The total number of tablet users in 2014 is estimated to be 90 million.
While eMarketer doesn’t break out numbers for any tablet other than the iPad, the obvious question is how much of those remaining 30 million tablet users will be on Kindle Fires or Nooks. I should note that these estimates are for numbers of users, not devices sold. Apple’s App Store Will Retain Lead In Dollar Terms, Says Piper. By Tiernan Ray Dear reader, I apologize: I seemed to have missed a brief but interesting note yesterday from Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster, who has done an analysis of the respective applications sales for mobile devices by Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG), and crowned Apple the winner in terms of dollars of sales.
“Google’s Android Market has generated ~7% of the gross revenue that Apple’s App Store has since inception,” writes Munster, drawing on data from something called “Androlib,” which is a Web site that serves as a catalog to Android apps and also compiles statistics on how much they’ve been download. “In other words, it appears that Apple has roughly 85-90% market share in dollars spent on mobile applications.”
Google’s Android Market has made $342 million in gross sales since inception through November 17th, with 1% of the total 6.75 billion downloads having been paid for, estimates Munster, based on Androlib data. Why is that? Kindle vs. Nook vs. iPad: Which e-book reader should you buy? | Crave. Editors' note: This story was first published in July 2010, and has been extensively updated, most recently on December 17, 2012. Shopping for an e-book reader or a small tablet?
At first glance, the task seems daunting -- there are more choices than ever before. The good news is that the list of worthwhile choices is actually fairly short. The even better news? Prices and features are better than ever. When we say "e-book readers," we're now really referring to four classes of products: black-and-white e-ink readers ($69 to $149); 7-inch color LCD media tablets ($150 to $300); midsize color LCD tablets ranging from 7.9 to 9 inches ($269 and up); and full-size color tablets like the iPad (mostly $400 and above).
The market for those products has consolidated around a handful of major players: Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Google are the leaders, with companies like Kobo, Samsung, and Sony -- and a host of other Android tablet manufacturers -- bringing up the rear. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. B&N Sold “Millions” Of Nooks, Nook Color Is “A Top Selling” Low-Priced Tablet. Ebook creators are notoriously tight-fisted with their sales stats but today William Lynch, CEO of B&N, announced the company has sold “millions” of devices and said the Nook Color was one of the top selling low-priced tablets, placing the company high in the pantheon of slate device manufacturers. The Nook Color has always been seen as a stalking horse when it came to tablet sales. Although woefully underpowered for the average Ice Cream Sandwich lover, the device, even jailbroken, offers an introductory experience and is seen as sort of a gateway drug to more powerful Android and iOS devices.
The Nook Color has dropped $200 at Best Buy and the Nook Tablet is, well, a tablet. It’s clearly aimed at the tablet market and, more important, it acts as B&N’s entree into a currently hot market. By avoiding “reader” branding entirely, the device seems to hit on a number consumer touch points. Numbered: This Week's Must-See Tech Stats.
Rovio’s Angry Birds Flies Past Half A Billion Downloads. Publications Clarification: Google, YouTube Traffic Versus Facebook 09/06. Q&A: Appsfire Founder/CEO Ouriel Ohayon. Good interactive fiction/ebook apps? Hello there! So glad to find your post, I think that I may have something to interest you. I'm currently helping to promote a book called: "Slabscape: Reset". We are calling it a webback. A webback is a work of fiction that is published in printed and eBook formats with the addenda, glossaries, back-stories and tangentially linked fiction available online. The epub is embedded with links to www.slabscapedia.com the database that provides all sorts of information and back story to the novel.
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The release also said that iOS 5, Apple's new operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, had been downloaded over 25 million times since it became available on October 12. Meanwhile, "20 million customers have signed up for iCloud," Apple's cloud-based storage and wireless synching system, per the press release. According to the Washington Post, carriers were also feeling the love on the day the new iPhone launched. Amazon signing authors directly, cutting out the publisher. Lego Tries Augmented Reality With “Life Of George” Game.
Kinect-iPad combo takes augmented reality to the next level. Understanding How Dilution Affects You At A Startup. TechCrunch. Early Signs Suggest Strong Holiday Sales for Kindle Fire. iPads Now Driving More Web Traffic Than iPhones. Smartphones and Tablets Drive Nearly 7 Percent of Total U.S. Digital Traffic.
Android Has More Market Share, But Apple's iOS Sends More Traffic.