Google is changing its payment policy on Android: from now on, there are no third-party payment systems in applications distributed on Google Play.

Google is putting things in order in the official Android app store. The goal is to protect users from unscrupulous applications, spam and intrusive advertising alerts. 

According to Bloomberg, the Russian telecom operator Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS) has officially accused Apple of arrogant attitude towards partners and strict pricing policy.

Max Grinev, the author and developer of the game Contre Jour, which received the title of the best iPad game according to Apple, gave some good advice to indie developers.

According to Fiksu, the number of downloads of iOS apps has started to increase slightly again, but at the same time, the cost of attracting users is growing more rapidly. 

 

App Annie analysts have found out that many iPhone games that never get into the box office top 25 on the App Store, but have been stable for a long time in slightly lower positions, are more profitable than the rapidly burning stars of the mobile sky. 

One of the largest Japanese publishers of “big” games, Capcom today can boast of success in the mobile sphere. Its latest financial report indicates that revenue from the sale of mobile content increased by 142% in the last quarter and reached 2.9 billion rubles (about $37.1 million).

The Steve Jobs platform managed to reverse the aggressive growth of Android in the US market. According to Strategy Analytics, compared to the results for the second quarter of last year, Google lost more than 4% of the market. 

The announcement of the new iPhone will take place on September 12, and its release on the 21st. This information has already been confirmed by such authoritative sources as AllThingsD, Bloomberg and Verge. 

Developing a multiplatform application in HTML5 is easy,” the developers of the new wrapper from appMobi assure. 

GetJar announced that the number of users of its GetJar Gold currency service has reached 10 million in just 5 months. In many ways, this happened thanks to the collaboration with Halfbrick and Zynga.  GetJar itself claims that the growth in the number of users indicates “getting into resonance” with the desires of both developers and players.

In his speech at Casual Connect 2012, Bertrand Schmidt, executive director of App Annie, spoke about the impact of device releases on downloads and revenue from apps in the App Store, and also shared interesting “comparative” statistics on the two leading app stores.  

Nokia, adhering to the business restructuring plan, on Friday closed the last Finnish factory for the production of smartphones and mobile phones. 

More recently, it became known that for the first time since 1986, Microsoft received a quarterly loss. And this is largely due to the decline in revenue in the priority direction for itself – Windows & Windows Live. There is an opinion that the company plans to improve the situation on the OS front, relying on its future tablet. 

Analysts from ABI Research predict that in 2012 the number of downloads of mobile applications for smartphones worldwide will reach 36 billion, which is 6% higher than last year. However, according to their calculations, there will be a gradual decrease in the total number of downloads in the coming years.

As part of the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference Sandra Ilyina, Business Development Manager of Opera Software, answered a number of our questions about the promotion of mobile applications. 

The average number of downloads of one app per day in the App Store has fallen to its lowest level since 2010. At the same time, according to new Distimo data, the transition of many developers to the free-to-play model allowed to triple the total income generated by applications from the Top 100 cash programs of the Apple App Store.