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?

Over the last four fiscal quarters (up to and including June), Apple’s revenue amounted to $ 100 billion. During this time, the company’s revenue grew by 75.73%, and net profit – by 90.2%.

According to the marketing company Fiksu, iPhone users have become less likely to install applications. This decline, in general, is not very significant, given the popularity of the iPhone, but the fact of moving backwards is interesting. 

There has been talk about their appearance for a long time, so the appearance of Sony S and Sony P tablets at the IFA exhibition was not a surprise for anyone. But many are concerned about the question: will they be able to compete with Apple’s iPad?

There are a great many Android-based devices. In this abundance, it is easy to get lost not only for developers, but also for users. What trends have already emerged and what does Android expect in the near future?

Sales of Android phones in the United States increased by 5.4% and by the end of July amounted to 41.8%. 

According to comScore, over the past three months, up to and including July, Apple, Google and Samsung have shown the best results in the US mobile market. The company has published a report on users of mobile operators, according to which Apple turned out to be the leader in the total market of mobile phones and smartphones. Samsung won the first place in sales of simple mobile phones. Sales of Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android-based…

Although Apple’s iOS is still more popular among developers, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows Phone platforms are already on its heels, according to the latest survey of developers hosting apps on GetJar, a cross-platform app store.

Developing apps for Apple’s App Store is not an easy task. Developers are always afraid that their application will not be approved in the App Store, which is one of the best application markets in the mobile industry.

Nielsen research company has published the latest information on the age and gender of American smartphone and tablet owners. If earlier it was mainly young men, now the accents have shifted.