Posts Tagged ‘Application’

Mobile Application Developer Survey Results

April 23rd, 2010

From Appcelerator developer survey:

In January, interest in the Apple platform was overwhelmingly high, with 90% of developers saying they were very interested in building an iPad app within the year. Fast forward two months to an updated developer poll taken March 23 – March 25 and there is sustained interest in the platform, but within an increasingly competitive platform landscape.

Interest in iPad remains strong, but off the wild enthusiasm in January. 80% of developers are very interested in building an iPad app within the first year vs. 90% in January. When asked about overall interest in iPad as a development platform, 53% responded that they were “very interested‟ – third behind iPhone and Android.

Increased competition among mobile platforms shows that Android (81% very interested in the platform) is closing in on iPhone (87%), while Blackberry (43%) and Windows Phone (34%) have doubled and nearly tripled their developer interest numbers, respectively, in just two months.

At only 14% claiming that they are very interested in WebOS, Palm is clearly seeing waning interest among developers. Symbian clocks in at 16%, while Meego – the recently combined Maemo/Moblin effort by Nokia and Intel – comes in last at just 12%.

Developers cited eBooks, entertainment/media applications, business applications, medical applications, and education applications as likely candidates for the iPad, consistent with January.

From: http://mashable.com/2010/03/31/ipad-developer-interest/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Mashable+(Mashable) and http://www.appcelerator.com/assets/Mobile_Developer_Survey_March_2010.pdf

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Admob Mobile Metrics Report – February 2010

April 23rd, 2010
  • In February 2010, smartphones accounted for 48% of AdMob’s worldwide traffic, up from 35% in February 2009. The strong growth of iPhone and Android traffic, fueled by heavy application usage, was primarily responsible for the increase. In absolute terms, smartphone traffic increased 193% over the last year.
  • Feature phones declined from 58% to 35% of AdMob’s total traffic as users began switching to smartphones. Although the share of traffic from feature phones as a category declined, in absolute terms traffic grew 31% year-over-year.
  • The mobile Internet devices category experienced the strongest growth of the three, increasing to account for 17% of traffic in AdMob’s network in February 2010. The iPod touch is responsible for 93% of this traffic; other devices include the Sony PSP and Nintendo DSi. In absolute terms, mobile Internet device category traffic increased 403%.
  • In February 2010, the leading smartphone operating systems in the AdMob network were the iPhone OS, Android, and Symbian. Over the last year, the iPhone increased its share of smartphone requests from 33% to 50% while Symbian’s share of requests fell from 43% to 18%.
  • Android was the fastest growing operating system in the AdMob network year-over-year. Android’s share of smartphone requests increased from 2% in February 2009 to 24% in February 2010. The top five Android devices worldwide, by traffic, were the Motorola Droid, HTC Dream, HTC Hero, HTC Magic, and the Motorola CLIQ.

From: http://metrics.admob.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/AdMob-Mobile-Metrics-Feb-10.pdf

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App Stores on Different Platforms

April 16th, 2010

Mobile subscribers are downloading more apps than ever, says a new In-Stat report, released Wednesday. Apple and its App Store are seeing the most action, with iPhone and iPod Touch users downloading 2.4 times more apps than the other smartphone owners.

In-Stat found that $2, $5, and $10 seem to be psychological barriers, leading to limited demand between these price levels.

From: http://www.dailywireless.org/2010/03/25/app-stores-growing-competition/

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iPhone Users Are More Than Willing to Pay for Apps – But Don’t Want to Pay a Lot

April 16th, 2010
  • About one-third of users across all the major mobile platforms (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry) are interested in paid apps.
  • iPhone users are the most willing to pay for some of their apps (57%), followed by BlackBerry users (33%). Android users are the least likely to be interested in paid apps (16%).
  • While only a third of BlackBerry users are willing to pay for apps, it’s worth noting that, with a median price of $5.99, they are willing to pay the most for their apps. iPhone users only want to pay around $1.99 and the average Android user is willing to pay up to $2.72.

From: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/iphone_users_more_willing_to_pay_for_apps_-_but_do.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb)

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Average Price Of Popular iPhone Apps By Region

April 16th, 2010

Europe : $3.86
Africa : $3.43
South America : $3.10
Australia : $2.86
Asia : $2.69
North America : $2.43

From: http://techcrunchies.com/average-price-of-popular-iphone-apps-by-region/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunchies+(TechCrunchies)

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App Store Customer Satisfaction

April 16th, 2010

From Nielsen:

iPhone users have installed an average of 37 applications on their devices – more than the users on any other smartphone platform – while Blackberry users only use 10 apps on their phones. Android users have around 22 apps on their phones, followed by Palm users (14) and Windows Mobile users (13).

Only 12% of cell phone users with feature phones downloaded an app in the last 30 days. In contrast to this, about 46% of smartphone owners installed an app in the last month.

Apple’s App Store is the most used mobile app store and has captured 25% of the market, followed by Blackberry’s App World Store (16%). Carrier stores run by AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon are also still very popular and have a market share between 8% (T-Mobile) and 15% (Verizon). The Android Market only had about a 2% market share by the end of 2009, but given the small number of devices on the market at that time, this number will surely grow in 2010 as more device manufactures add Android devices to their lineup.

84% of Apple’s users are satisfied with the user experience in the iTunes store and 81% of Android users are happy about their experience. The Windows Marketplace ranked the lowest (56%), followed by the Blackberry App World store (58%).

From: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/survey_apples_app_store_customer_satisfaction_android_close_second.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb)

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Android Market has 10,000 crappy “spam” apps

April 16th, 2010

There are 32 “spammers” who produce nearly 7,500 apps. That means 0.4% of all Android developers account for 25% of apps.

There are a total of 359 spammers with more than 10,000 apps.

From: http://androinica.com/2010/03/19/android-market-has-10000-crappy-spam-apps/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+androinica+(Androinica+-++A+Google+Android+Blog)

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Growth in Number of App Stores

April 16th, 2010

Before 2008 : 3
2008 : 8
2009 : 38
2010 : 48 (till Feb)

From: http://techcrunchies.com/number-of-mobile-app-stores/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunchies+(TechCrunchies)

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Android Stats

April 8th, 2010
  • About 60,000 Android phones sold daily, about 22M a year
  • Motorola DROID slightly out selling iPhone sales in 2-1/2 months time (1.05M versus 1M). Nexus One barely over a tenth of the aforementioned (135K).
  • Android Market tipped over 30,000 Android Apps (3rd party AndroLib.com reports more than 36,000)
  • About 60% of Android Apps are free compared to iPhone’s 25%
  • The average paid Android app prices at $3.27
  • U.S. make up 65% of Android devices
  • More iPhone consumers tend to buy apps than Android consumers (50% versus 21%)

From: http://www.androidtapp.com/android-growth-statistics-projections/

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iPhone App Developer Heritage

April 8th, 2010

From: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-20-of-iphone-developers-started-with-the-iphone-2010-3

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