The release of the iPhone 4S instead of the iPhone 5 may give chances to competitors – smartphones based on Windows Phone and Android from Microsoft, HTC, Samsung Electronics and Nokia, which will increase their market shares due to more innovative devices.

Whether you plan to publish your apps only in one country or in several, in any case, it is important to know how different the tops of apps in different countries are. Distimo analyzed the tops of free and paid applications from different countries.

With the advent of the Apple App Store and several replicated “success stories” about how the developer managed to quickly make more than one million dollars on one application, a real gold rush seized many. Unfortunately, as experience shows, it’s not enough to just make a “cool game” for iOS and download it to iTunes. Now there are more than 500 thousand apps in the App Store, and to notice exactly yours, you have to…

During yesterday’s presentation of the iPhone 4S, which deceived the expectations of many users, the price of Apple shares on the stock exchanges fell by more than 3.5%, although it later adjusted to a drop of 0.5%. This is unheard of for Apple, whose shares have risen in price every time after the release of new products. According to analysts’ forecasts, the 5th version of the iPhone will appear no earlier than LTE technology (Long…

Yesterday at 21 o’clock Moscow time, Apple introduced its new iPhone, which, however, to the disappointment of many, turned out to be not an iPhone 5, but an iPhone 4S. It is difficult to call it revolutionary, but, nevertheless, according to Apple, it has about 200 differences from the previous model.

What developer does not dream of getting into the American top, at the same time conquering the tops of all other countries? As the latest research by Distimo has shown, the versatility of the application can play against you.

The Fluffies game for iPhone appeared almost 2 years ago. It was made in Rostov-on-Don by a small development team called Argonyt. Cute fluffy animals, although they did not have time to conquer the whole world yet, achieved good results: they reached the second place in Top Paid in Russia and Germany, entered the Top ten FREE in 8 more countries, and also took first place in the subcategories Family and KIDs in almost 20…

Last week, the first Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon was officially unveiled. Almost immediately, the novelty was placed in first place among the bestsellers on Amazon – despite the fact that it will be available only on November 15, while it is available only by pre-order. What is so special about this tablet? Will it be able to compete with the iPad?

According to a study by InMobi, 41% of mobile phone users in North America (USA, Canada and Mexico) plan to purchase an iPhone 5 this fall, while half of them are going to do so within the next six months.

On September 27, Microsoft launched an updated version of the mobile operating system 7.5 Mango OS. No one doubts that 500 operating system updates will satisfy Mango users. Analysts believe that Microsoft’s novelty is a high–quality product that clearly demonstrates the development of Windows Phone.

More and more people are starting to actively use smartphones instead of regular computers. Developers, in turn, try to provide such users with as much content as possible, which often affects the quality. According to a study by Evans Data, 90% of developers take less than six months to develop an application for mobile platforms.

According to Digi-Capital, online and mobile games will increase the total volume of the video game market to $ 87 billion and will account for half of the revenue (44 billion). The once successful console gaming sector will decline.      

The Cover Orange game for iPad and iPhone appeared at the end of 2010 (November 17 and December 13, respectively). During its existence, it has been both paid and free; almost two months ago, the possibility of in-game purchases appeared in it. In mid-August, the game reached the third line of Top Paid iPhone Apps USA, and since its release, both versions have earned almost a million dollars. The author of the application Evgeny Kuzmin,…

On October 14, a conference of developers for mobile platforms Mobile People will be held in Kazan for the first time.

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, the number of mobile subscribers in China increased by 81 million users in the first 8 months of 2011. Now the total number of subscribers is a record 940 million.

Representatives of RIM, Andrey Kiselyov and Ola Larsen spoke at the MobileFest conference, which was held in September near St. Petersburg. They talked about the capabilities of devices on the BlackBerry® platform – in particular, they presented a new PlayBook tablet and even played it among the conference participants. 

Apple’s iPhone has always been on the radar in the field of mobile technology, and the release of the new iPhone 5, which is just around the corner, only adds fuel to the fire. However, a recent study has shown that not everything is so simple.

9 Innings: Pro Baseball 2011 is another baseball simulator released last year on the iTunes App Store for $4.99 with In-App Purchase option. Subsequently, the price for the game dropped to $ 0.99.

On September 22, a new game “Where’s My Water?” for iPhone / iPad from Disney was released and in just a few days took the top positions in the tops.