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Mobile App Marketplace: $17.5 Billion by 2012
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According to a study commissioned by mobile application store operator GetJar, the mobile application market will reach $17.5 billion by 2012. By then, the number of mobile application downloads will have also grown to nearly 50 billion from just over 7 billion in 2009.
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- The annual growth rate for mobile app downloads is 92%
- By 2012, off-deck, paid apps will be the biggest source of revenue
- In 2009, mobile operators accounted for more than 60% of apps’ revenue
- By 2012, mobile operators will account for less than 23% of apps’ revenue
- The app store growth (8 to 38 by 2012) is an increase of 375%
- Average app selling price is $1.09 in North America, $0.20 in South America and $0.10 in Asia
- Revenue opportunities in Europe will grow from $1.5 billion in 2009 to $8.5 billion in 2012
- Revenue opportunities in North America will grow from $2.1 billion to around $6.7 billion in 2012
- Apps are most popular in Asia where they account for 37% of global downloads this past year
- Users spent the most for apps in North America where they account for over 50% of revenue
Here are a few other highlights from the report (via Paid Content and TechCrunch):
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If the desktop is dying, mobile sync is king | The Open Road – CNET News
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Google has proclaimed that the conventional PC will become “irrelevant” within the next three years, and it insists that it puts mobile first in development.
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Traditionally, sync has been that thing you do between your desktop and your one mobile device to ensure that calendars, address books, and even browser bookmarks are current between the two islands of computing. But in a mobile Web world 1 billion devices strong, as IDC predicts for 2010, it’s certain that sync will no longer be constrained to one-to-one relationships, but rather will explode into a many-to-many syncfest.
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Mobile is additive, not destructive, to the traditional computing landscape, as even Google’s search traffic experience shows.
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uTest Finds 908 Bugs In Web And Mobile Apps Of Major U.S. TV Networks
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