At the Casual Connect Game Developers Conference in Seattle, several reports on the mobile gaming sector were read. We want to share interesting figures.

Recently, Inneractive has published interesting data on the gender characteristics of user behavior in mobile applications.

According to a study conducted by the analytical company Localytics, iPad users spend the most time reading the news, listening to music, as well as on applications from the “Health” category.

Freemium-games on the iOS and Android app market remain the main source of profit. For example, free games from the top 100 games on the App Store bring 65% of all revenue. 

The mobile app industry attaches too much importance to the number of downloads. Developers brag about how many times their application has been downloaded, and analysts and owners of online stores consider the number of downloads as the main indicator of success.

Yesterday we published statistics on the cost of applications in the App Store, today we offer information about the categories of the Android Market.

Yandex has launched a mobile application search service — apps.yandex.ru . The service is available for owners of iPhone or iPod Touch, as well as Android phones. It is enough to enter a query on the Yandex service or in the mobile search, for example, [English-Russian dictionary] or [angry birds] and see relevant applications from the App Store or Android Market in the search results.

By September 12, 2011, 463,272 apps from 105,489 developers/publishers were available for download in the App Store. Read on about how many games appear every day, how much you have to wait for an appruva on average, and what it costs.

According to analysts, sales of Android-based mobile apps will soon overtake the Apple App Store. However, according to other forecasts, the dominance of piracy and malware can finally convince developers that it is impossible to make money on Android applications.

According to HeadHunter, the rapidly developing smartphone market provides a constant demand for mobile app developers. Over the past year, the share of smartphones from the total sales of cell phones in Russia has increased from 10 to 20 percent.

According to analysts’ forecasts, the mobile games sector will develop most rapidly.

How popular are RIM products? BlackBerry now has 67 million users, and its products are rapidly spreading in regions such as Western Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India and Southeast Asia. Over the last quarter, the company’s profit increased by 16% compared to the previous year.

NetApplications has published a report on the volume of Internet traffic of users with various devices. In it, for the first time, she separately presented information about mobile devices.

Distimo, a company engaged in mobile technology market analytics, has published another report on the work of app stores for mobile platforms. This is especially true when you consider that many developers are now striving to create cross-platform applications.

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A new version of the BlackBerry App World 3.0 app store is available. It has become even easier for owners of Blackberry-based phones to search and download applications. Now users can set individual settings for their phone, which will always be in touch.

For an increasing number of developers, China is becoming the second country in the world in terms of the number of mobile app downloads, although it still lags behind in terms of monetization.

According to the latest data published on the portal 148apps.biz On September 5, 2011, 471,319 apps are now available in the App Store. They are owned by 106,423 publishers/developers. Let’s try to calculate how much the average developer earns, considering that this summer the number of downloads of applications from the App Store for 3 years of its existence exceeded the mark of 15 billion?

This question worries equally those who are just going to make their first mobile application, and those who have already achieved success with applications on the iOS platform. Does the popularity of Android devices mean a commensurate profit for developers?