It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication.
This publication covers the Apple App Store for iPad, the Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog, Windows Marketplace for Mobile (6.x), and Windows Phone 7 Marketplace during January 2011. The major findings are:
- Two app stores are clearly ahead of the other app stores in terms of growth rates in January 2011: Windows Phone 7 Marketplace (30%) and Google Android Market (18%). However, the evolution of both stores is very different, and will be examined in more detail in this report.
- The overlap of applications between countries is over 97% for all countries in both the Google Android Market and Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. However, if we look at the 100 most popular applications only, the overlap between countries is much lower in Microsoft’s store than in Android Market, indicating that it is much easier for consumers to find locally popular content in the
Windows Phone 7 Marketplace than in the Google Android Market. - Google Android Market is the only store that has more free than paid applications, and the proportion of free applications increased again in January.
- Windows Phone 7 Marketplace has already attracted some of the largest cross-store publishers, but it still has a long way to go to attract the same number of cross-store publishers as the Google Android Market or the Apple App Store.
You can now download the publication.
Vincent Hoogsteder
| Company: | |
| Website: | www.android.com |
| Launched: | Oct 22, 2008 |
| Applications: | 135,829 |
Google acquired the company Android in 2005, which was the basis for the Android OS that was launched in October 2008. Google Android Market is the pre-installed application store on Android. Read more.
| Company: | Apple |
| Website: | itunes.apple.com |
| Launched: | April 3, 2010 |
| Applications: | 58,225 |
The Apple App Store for iPad was launched along with the iPad in the United States on April 3, 2010. The number of applications shown below reflect iPad only applications. iPhone only applications hav... Read more.
| Company: | Apple |
| Website: | itunes.apple.com |
| Launched: | Jul 11, 2008 |
