Source: Gartner (May 2010)

From: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1372013

From: http://www.thesearethedroids.com/2010/05/18/android-2-1-takes-the-lead/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+thesearethedroids+(These+are+the+Droids)

From: http://gorumors.com/crunchies/youtube-usage-stats-facts/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunchies+(TechCrunchies)

• The average total number of units sold was 101,024 copies within an average period of 261 days.
• The average number of units sold per day was 387.
• The average price was $5.49, although the data skews due to the $49.99 outlier. In most cases, the price point was $0.99.
• The average number of updates released was 3.89
• The average total development cost amounting to $6,453. Several developers omitted development costs and most did not include their personal time in these figures. It is safe to assume the cost would be at least five or ten times more when using a contracted team.
• On average, iPhone developers are seeing a return of more than 15 times their initial development costs.

When the top 10% of the most successful apps are removed from the data set:

• The average sales were 11,625 total units
• Averaging 44 copies/day
• Approximately 23% of apps sold less than 1000 units from launch (ranging from 12 to 370 days in the App Store)
• 56% of apps sold less than or equal to 10,000 units, while 90% sold less than 100,000 units, with the remaining 10% achieving sales of 127,000 – 3,000,000 units.

Being featured by Apple is the greatest contributor to spiking sales. The level of Apple promotion reflected what sort of increase the developer would see. Areas such as “New and Noteworthy” produced slightly less gains than “Staff Favorites” or “What’s Hot.” Generally speaking, it is safe to assume a 2-20X sales spike following being featured, with the effect lasting roughly a week or so before returning to average numbers.

From: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/16/iphone-app-sales-exposed/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)

From: http://gigaom.com/2010/05/14/as-data-overtakes-voice-mobile-costs-rise/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+OmMalik+(GigaOM)

From: http://gigaom.com/2010/05/14/wi-fi-it-just-keeps-going-and-growing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+OmMalik+(GigaOM)

The performance of different operating systems in April shows Feature Phone handsets continue its consistent rise in CTR’s (134 up 9 from March), closing the gap on Symbian (157 rising just a point from the previous month).

From: http://gigaom.com/2010/05/14/hey-advertisers-forget-the-iphone-symbian-is-where-its-at/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+OmMalik+(GigaOM)

• Two of every nine adults live in wireless-only homes as compared to two out of every 17 in 2006.
• Although wireless-only adoption rates for survey respondents decrease dramatically after the age of 35, every age group shows an increase in wireless adoption over prior-year surveys.
• The number of unemployed and retired adults using only a wireless phone has doubled to 20.2 percent from 10.3 percent since the midpoint of 2006.
• Even among households with both landline and wireless service, 25.7 percent of calls were on wireless telephones, and the CDC considers such households “wireless mostly” due to their increased reliance on cell phones. They account for 16.3 percent of all households, up from 14.4 percent in the first half of 2008.

And 75 percent of those between the ages of 12 and 17 own a cell phone, up from the 45 percent in 2004.

From: http://gigaom.com/2010/05/13/tracking-the-landlines-demise/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+OmMalik+(GigaOM)

From: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/05/smartphone-wars-panic-at-apple-panic-at-nokia-google-stumbles.html

From: http://www.jiwire.com/downloads/pdf/JiWire_MobileAudienceInsightsReport_Q12010.pdf