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It looks like many of you got new smartphones for the holidays and that also means many of you were busy downloading apps. According to Flurry Analytics, you were very busy, as smartphone users downloaded more than 1.2 billion apps from Dec. 25 to Jan. 1. This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise,…
comScore today published their research results for the U.S. smartphone market in November, and it’s more of the same: RIM’s share of the pie keeps getting smaller, and Google’s keeps getting bigger. The changes since October weren’t really significant, but the course remained consistent. The BlackBerry smartphone OS market share dipped 0.6% since last month,…
Flurry Analytics released its findings a few days ago for the number of collective iOS and Android activations made on Christmas Day this year. The statistics were impressive, but they didn’t represent the accomplishments of each individual operating system, and what would the mobile industry be today without some friendly competition between iOS and Android?…
A new report from the mobile advertising company Fiksu found that Apple iPhone app downloads have increased 83 percent from last year and iPhone owners are downloading roughly 5 million apps a day. The mobile advertising company Fiksu published the results of its research on what it calls App Store Competitive Index, Cost per Loyal…
Windows Phone passed a very important milestone for the platform this week, as there are now 50,000 apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace. Though still far behind iOS and Android in terms of number of apps and market share of app downloads, Windows Phone is beginning to prove itself as a capable operating system in…
According to a new report (PDF download) from Berg Insight, good times are ahead for the mobile marketing industry. The company suggests that the total value of the global mobile marketing and advertising market will grow from 2.6 billion EUR in 2010 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 37% to 17.2 billion EUR…
Are you happy with your iPad? If you said “yes,” you’re not alone, as a survey from the Software Usability Research Laboratory testing customer satisfaction for the Apple iPad, 83.65 percent of respondents indicated that they were satisfied with the tablet. The survey covered a range of other topics involving the iPad such as how user friendly…
We’ve been seeing some smartphones with amazing cameras lately and I’ve been saying for a while that these can definitely replace point-and-shoot cameras and it looks like the market agrees. A new report from NPD found that people are increasingly using smartphones to take pictures instead of cameras. The report found that the percentage of…
Freemium apps are obviously working both for consumers and developers/publishers, and the trend will continue in 2012. Already of the top-ranked 250 iOS apps across all categories, an average of 88% are free to download, monetized with advertising and in-app purchases. In that sense, the research company says that at this time next year in…
It’s been a month since the Kindle Fire launched and no one knows the exact sales figures (except for Amazon) but a new report from Millennial Media sheds some light on the success of the Amazon tablet. Millennium, a company which bases its monthly data on mobile ads distributed across its multi-platform network, says that…