Support for high-quality smartphones is expensive for telecom operators, but even more money is spent on servicing cheaper Android mobile devices.   WDS has estimated that replacing or repairing low-quality Android phones costs companies up to $2 billion a year.

In this issue: iOS is leading the mobile Internet traffic market; Android has overtaken competitors in the UK; Apple is named the most profitable company in the mobile market.

The ComboApp agency conducted a study in which more than 3 thousand independent developers, 85 top managers and 82 middle managers of large companies engaged in the development of applications for mobile platforms took part.

According to Flurry, China has surpassed the UK and has become the second most consumed mobile app market after the United States.

Apple’s operating system continues to dominate the mobile Internet market. According to the latest data from Net Applications, in October, iOS accounted for 61.64% of all global mobile traffic. Every month, its share increases by 6.9%. 

Fiksu has published data on app downloads from the App Store for September 2011: the number continued to fall, while publishers began to spend more money on marketing. Apple explains this by the fact that a lot of users were expecting the release of the new iPhone.

Nielsen recently published a study according to which 62% of American mobile users aged 25 to 34 have smartphones; at the same time, half of smartphone owners are people aged 18 to 24.

Prior to the release of the iPhone 4S, Android increased its market share. But it’s too early to celebrate this fact, says Bill Palmer, editor-in-chief of BeatWeek Magazine. Only the market share has increased as a percentage, while quantitative growth has seriously slowed down.

Apple has become the most profitable manufacturer of mobile devices, collecting 52% of the operating profit of this industry in the last quarter. At the same time, Apple’s share in the smartphone market was only 4.2%.

In 18 months, Google has managed to increase its market share in the UK by about 40% (which totaled about 50%).

The history of the Playrix company began in 2002, when two brothers – one a student, the other still a schoolboy – developed their first mini-game during the last month of the summer holidays; in 2004 they already founded their own company. Playrix gained worldwide fame as developers of high-quality downloadable casual games. Now the company is actively developing in the mobile direction. Igor Bukhman, co-founder and president of Playrix products, told us about what…

Android has overtaken its competitors, winning half of the smartphone market in the UK. But, according to the company Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, now there is a fight between manufacturers of Android-based mobile devices.

According to which model is it better to distribute the application? This question has to be answered by everyone who has it. What to choose: freemium, lite+paid or only paid model? And what price should I set if it is a paid application? To choose, you need to understand how different stores differ, and what preferences their customers have.

In this issue: mobile Internet is gaining momentum in Russia, application developers prefer Facebook, an alliance with Nokia will allow Windows Phone to double its share.

According to a study by Strategy Analytics, the collaboration between Microsoft and Nokia will help the Windows Phone operating system to double its share in the smartphone market in 2012. Based on data on sales of Mango devices, analysts have made a forecast that Windows Phone will belong to 12.3%.

According to statistics provided by Localytics, developers prefer Facebook, while Twitter users are more active. Thousands of applications based on Android, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 were studied from January to July 2011.

According to a Google study conducted in September-October of this year, almost every third Russian with a smartphone uses the mobile Internet daily; at the same time, everyone goes online at least once a week.

Onavo tried to identify the differences between iPhone and Android users. A 30-day study of more than 100 thousand mobile device owners was conducted.

Flurry has presented new data on the iPhone and iPad audience based on the analysis of users of top apps in the App Store.