A recent survey of 400 North American developers by Evans Data reveals that they aren’t happy with mobile app stores. Eighty percent said they should receive more than 70 percent of the revenue for app downloads through app stores, and the majority preferred direct sales to end users over the
Distimo has released its latest report on activity in Apple’s App Store during April. It’s major findings include the following: The App Store now includes 4,870 apps for the iPad. 32 percent of iPad apps are games. 73 percent of iPhone apps are paid, while 80 percent iPad apps are
Market research firm Gartner says that application development (AD) software revenues decreased slight last year, falling 2 percent to $7.25 billion. “One of the main reasons for the decline in revenue in the AD market in 2009 was the de facto spending freeze on new projects in the early part
According to Gartner, organizations spent a total of $15.9 billion in the application infrastructure and middleware (AIM) software market in 2009. “All factors considered, in 2009 the AIM market performed better than most software segments,” said Fabrizio Biscotti, research director at Gartner. “On the back of strong drivers, such as
In a survey of mobile application developers, market research firm Ovum found that 81 percent of developers either had already started iPhone projects or plan to do so soon. Coming in second and third place were RIM’s BlackBerry OS and Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS, attracting 74 percent and 66 percent
A new survey by cloud computing phone service provider RingCentral confirms that belief that smartphones are coming to dominate business professionals’ live. More people said they would rather give up their morning cup of coffee than said they would give up their smartphone, and smartphones tied for first place with
Several industry watchers have been commenting with dismay on the number of versions of Android in the marketplace, and now IMS Research has released a report tackling the problem. “Fragmentation is a concern first and foremost for developers,” noted IMS Research analyst, Chris Schreck. “Differentiating between strains of an OS,
For the period between November 2009 and February 2010, 234 million Americans age 13 and older were mobile subscribers. Of those, an average 45.4 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during any given month, an increase of 21 percent from the previous three months. Blackberry/RIM continued to be the
In 2009, mobile device users downloaded 2.4 billion applications. For 2010, ABI Research expects that figure to soar to 6 billion, as smartphone sales jump up 20 percent and the number of app stores grows. However, revenue from applications will decline as competition puts downward pressure on prices. For the