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The research company research2guidance has some interesting figures to report on the mobile app market. According to them, the development service market today is currently twice as big as the app download market. What’s more, this market — which includes application creation, management, distribution and extension services — will grow in value to $100 billion in 2015.
Don’t say you’re surprised, with all of the free apps popping across major app stores. However that’s still impressive, considering it’s only been a year and a half since Apple launched its App Store, effectively opening up the flood gates.
research2guidance goes on suggesting that the number of applications developed by third party developers represents 66% of all applications. Moreover, this share will increase over the next years as more and more companies want to publish applications but don’t have the resources in-house.
It’s interesting that most developers started out as publishers, but the increased level of competition in the main app stores, along with high failure rates, made them [application developers] alter their business model, concentrating on developing apps for other companies, instead…
As usual, you can get additional information on research2guidance’s report from their website.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
