Distimo conducted a study of the mobile gaming applications market for the period from June 2010 to June 2011 on major sites, including Apple App Store for iPad and iPhone, BlackBerry App World, GetJar, Google Android Market, Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.

South Korea came in third place in the world in terms of the number of downloads of free apps from the App Store, pushing the UK into fourth place. The USA and China are in first and second place.

Google’s Android mobile operating system has surpassed Apple’s iPhone in terms of sales for the first time. Over the past 4 months, sales of Android-based smartphones have amounted to 54% with the share of the iPhone at 29%.

Flurry Analytics analyzed 57 million purchases of items in freemium games on iOS and Android platforms. During the first half of 2011, freemium games (also known as free-to-play – you can download them for free, but for a faster passage of the game you need to purchase various items and artifacts) became leaders in revenue among the top 100 apps in the App Store. They account for 65% of transactions, while paid applications have faded…

There are many errors that can directly affect the success of your application. Most of them are committed by developers even before the start of development, at the planning stage. Mutual Mobile, which has launched more than a hundred successful applications for mobile platforms, shared secrets about how to develop products as efficiently as possible.

What is the best way to monetize an app? Where is more money? What do developers choose more often? Flurry recently answered these and other questions by analyzing the revenues of the top 100 apps in the App Store.

iPhone owners live in cities and earn more than $200,000 a year, and Android users usually have only a secondary education. Hunch came to such conclusions after analyzing the data of 700 thousand mobile phone owners.

Samsung Galaxy Tab, HP TouchPad, not being a serious threat individually, have jointly grabbed 20% of Apple’s market share over the past 12 months, according to ABI Research.

The mobile app market is expanding and competition is high. Therefore, the effectiveness of mobile analytics becomes one of the main issues.

The controversy surrounding tracking users’ location using mobile devices and location-linked advertisements can now be resolved quickly.

The IT industry giant has more cash on hand than the US government.

According to a study conducted by Jumptap, iOS has a higher CTR (click-through-rate) than Android.

July infographics from Inner-Active.com :

While the cost of games for iOS has stabilized (most of these games are sold for $ 0.99, or even distributed for free), the price of in-game content continues to grow. There is a high probability that this will soon become the main source of income for developers.

Good news for developers who have successful, but no longer new applications: most iOS applications, primarily on the iPhone, which rose to the top last week, are old applications that have received new functions.

In terms of the number of subscribers, Android now surpasses iOS in the United States, but the iPad and iPod still surpass the first platform in terms of the number of unique users.

On July 7, Apple announced that there are more than 450,000 apps to download in the App Store.

The sequel to Cut the Rope: Experiments from ZeptoLab, presented for the iPad for the first week, occupies a leading position, beating Fruit Ninja (Halfbrick), Flight Control (Firemint) and three releases of Angry Birds from Rovio.