According to American analysts from Strategy Analytics and RBC Capital Market, mobile platforms have been on the market for no more than ten years. Based on this theory, the researchers assumed that iOS and Android will cease to exist in five to six years. 

The nonprofit organization The Pew Research Center conducted a study in which it found that over the Christmas season, the number of tablets among the adult population of the United States doubled.

IHS analysts are confident that by the end of 2015, Windows Phone-based devices will overtake Apple gadgets in shipments.

According to statistics, iOS is the most popular mobile platform among corporate employees.

In the material: more than half of the owners of smartphones and tablets are willing to tolerate advertising in exchange for access to free content; a few statistics regarding the love of users for free applications.

Smartphones are very popular these days, but because of the high prices, few can afford them. Analysts at Deloitte claim that because of this, devices with reduced functionality at a price of $ 100 and below will be especially popular on the market.

Which projects are becoming the most successful on the App Store and why, why you need a feature, and what is a “jackpot” game – about all this in our new material.

Mobile advertising brought Google $2.5 billion in 2011. Analysts from Piper Jaffray claim that next year it will bring one and a half times more. Apple is still in flight.

The revenues of mobile app developers are three times higher than the revenue from the total sales of these applications. We are talking about the income of companies that create custom applications. Salaries differ significantly from region to region, although in Russia and India they are about the same level.

An hour and a half a day is about how much an American user spends on working with mobile applications. And half of this time falls on games.

American analytical companies have shared information about some of the trends of last fall in the mobile systems market. Among them: the growth of the share of the iOS platform, the victory of smartphones over conventional mobile phones, as well as something about the high popularity of the iPhone.  

In 2011, about 73 million tablets were shipped. This is 256% more than in 2010. Analysts are confident that by 2017, tablets will almost catch up with laptops in terms of supplies.

In a year and a half, the number of downloads of applications for the Apple tablet has reached three billion. Android indicators are lagging far behind, but analysts are confident that the situation will radically change in the future.

According to the results of last December, Apple products accounted for more than 52.1% of mobile traffic. Android gadgets have only 16.2%.

The release of the iPhone 4S significantly affected the number of downloads of free software from the App Store.

There is a version that the next iPad will be shown at the annual iWorld festival on January 26, 2012.

With the introduction of Android 4.0 and Windows 8 on the market, tablets will become the dominant devices in the market of devices with touch screens.

Inside Mobile Apps bloggers tell how big companies manage to stay in the top in the last weeks of the year.

The number of smartphones used by users may increase from the current 262 million to 800 million. At least, such figures were shared with the public by Flurry. The main driver of growth is the Chinese market; the Russian market may also increase significantly.