The Apple company began to counteract clones of top-end applications. The games of an extremely prolific independent developer were the first to fall under the knife.

The most popular “cartoon” company in the world has decided to approach the distribution of a new mobile application from an unusual side.

This is what experts from the analytical company Chomp insist on, who recently published the results of their own monitoring of the mobile application market for 2011.

In a few minutes you will find out how many billions of dollars Apple has paid to developers, how many downloads there were in the Android Market and how Christmas affected tablet sales.

Yesterday we wrote about the record earnings of Apple itself, now it’s time to talk about how much developers have earned on applications so far. 

Android has 250 million activated devices; every tenth Korean calls Samsung Galaxy S II; threats to the mobile market.

We offer you to listen to the material that we published this week. 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 podcast.

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.

How projects get to the App Store showcase, why iPhone development is not cheap and not fast, why updates are needed and much more is told by one of the authors of the SQUIDS role–playing game.

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

On one day alone – December 25, 2011 – 6.8 million smartphones were activated, while half of the activations were on Android. Microsoft Corporation, in turn, boasted of the number of applications in the Windows Phone Market.

Users of the Google platform download more work applications and play less on their devices than users of the mobile version of iOS.

Distimo summed up the results of the year in the mobile application market and shared the results of the study with the press.

In 2011, free apps became the highest-grossing mobile projects in the UK. This is the conclusion that GAMESbrief experts came to.  

In this release: the number of downloads from the App Store has passed the 18 billion mark; Android applications are getting smaller.

Microsoft continues its offensive on iOS. A new step is the release of one of the largest projects for Windows Phone on the Apple platform.

Analysts from Distimo shared information about the number of downloads needed to reach the top on the App Store, and also posted a list of the most active countries in terms of downloading free apps. Russia, despite the well-known love of its inhabitants for freebies, was not included in the list.

According to Apple, the number of downloads from the App Store has exceeded 18 billion.

Microsoft has unexpectedly released the Xbox Live app for mobile devices on the iOS platform.