Analysts decided to back up rumors about the characteristics of the iPad Mini with forecasts of possible profits from the device.

There are 400 thousand apps in the App Store whose rating and downloads are zero. The researchers of the analytical company Adeven insist on this.

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. 

Yesterday, as part of the Casual Connect 2012 conference, App Annie’s detailed report on the state of the global mobile market was conducted by the company’s executive director Bertrand Schmidt. Without delay, App Annie employees posted a presentation “based on motives”, thanks to which you can find out the names of the leading countries in terms of revenue, downloads and ARPU, as well as the names of top American and non-American publishers.  

Apple’s quarterly growth rate in the third fiscal quarter was the lowest in the last two years, with record earnings for the company in April-June.   

Apple said that the user will no longer need to enter the password from his ID when downloading free apps.

Yesterday Apple released iOS 6 beta 3, which is currently available exclusively for developers. What’s new?

Today, Facebook announced the release of a completely redesigned new version of the SDK 3.0 for iOS, including support for iOS 6 and iOS Dev Center (the new Development Center for iOS), which stores documentation and links to resources for developers.

Two-thirds of mobile phones purchased in the U.S. in the second quarter of 2012 were smartphones. This is one of the results of the latest study of the American smartphone market conducted by Nielsen – see the rest inside.

Microsoft will “leave no stone unturned” in the competition with Apple. The corporation intends to compete in every segment of the market where the “apple” company is present. This was stated in an interview with CRN by Steve Ballmer, chief executive Officer of Microsoft.

It is quite possible that you also recently encountered a situation when a newly updated iPhone application did not want to launch? It turned out that more than one product suffered from this “disease”. 

For a developer who made his first iOS app and uploaded it to the App Store on his own, a painful waiting period begins: he is intensely watching the tops in the hope that his brainchild will take one of the coveted top lines. Experienced publishers and developers at this time spend huge budgets on marketing and sometimes resort to not entirely honest methods.

Recently, information has been spreading more and more actively in the online media that Apple is preparing to release a budget tablet, which is still called the iPad Mini. And, indeed, such a step looks quite justified. After all, competitors have already begun to explore this niche. Let’s recall at least the Kindle Fire and the recently announced Google Nexus 7.

comScore has published its next quarterly review of the American market of mobile devices and platforms. According to him, 234 million people use mobile devices in the United States, Samsung is slowing its growth, and Android still accounts for more than half of the OS market. 

Last May, the number of downloads of free apps from the American App Store began to grow again. If we talk about the cost of attracting a loyal user, then, on the contrary, it began to fall. Moreover, it is very significant,” says Fiksu in its next monthly report.  

Authors with Appcod.es they told us in detail (with examples) about the features of the new search algorithm in the App Store. 

There are two newcomers in the American box office top of iPhone games at once: Temple Run: Brave and Zynga Slots. In the top of gaming applications for iPad, there were also some updates: a fresh game from Wizards of the Coast – Magic 2013 showed itself well. But as for Google Play, everything is the same here.

Apple has changed the search algorithm in the App Store. Read about the changes and the first victims of the innovation below. 

In the American App Store in the iPhone version, the most popular game is Flow Free, developed and published by just one person. The best growth for the week was shown by the bdsm clone Temple Run: Brave.