Analysts from comScore shared the latest data on the American market of mobile phones, smartphones and operating systems. It turned out that Apple is doing the best right now, but Android may soon have to tighten its belt. 

Last April, the number of downloads of free apps in the American App Store continued to decline, as for the cost of attracting a loyal user, it, on the contrary, increased,” says Fiksu in its next monthly report. 

According to a study conducted by Game Developer magazine, Unity is the most popular engine among mobile developers. More than half of the insiders interviewed by the magazine said that they use this package for development. 

Yesterday, Google introduced subscription support in its own app store. Glu Mobile immediately took advantage of this. She introduced a subscription to her virtual currency: now for $9.99 per month, players receive twice as many credits as if they paid the same amount at a time.

Potential tablet buyers are less and less interested in purchasing devices from Apple, according to Ipsos Mediact analysts, who provided detailed data on the current preferences of American consumers. 

China is becoming an increasingly important territory for Apple. In the first quarter of 2012 alone, sales of Apple smartphones in the Chinese market tripled. 

The tablet market is storming, despite Apple’s unconditional leadership. Among the leading vendors, there is a fierce struggle for second place in the market for the supply of devices. Kindle Fire starts to lose, Samsung goes up. 

According to figures published by Microsoft, its mobile platform has not only caught up in popularity, but also left behind Apple’s operating system in the People’s Republic of China. MTS claims that the share of WP in Russia is greater than that of iOS.

The new iPad, according to the Kommersant newspaper, will arrive in Russian retail on May 25. The price for a “white” tablet will be about 25 thousand rubles for the “youngest” model with Wi-fi and 16 GB. 

The most popular smartphone in the land of the rising sun turned out to be a gadget from Apple. It has 30% of the Japanese market. 

Facebook seems to have passed the time when projects were ported to iOS from Facebook, now they are porting to Facebook from iOS. At least that’s exactly what the developers from the Halfbrick studio did when their unpretentious, but extremely popular arcade game Jetpack Joyride in the iOS version scored more than 25 million downloads. 

According to the results of the first quarter of 2012, it turned out that only three vendors receive profit from the sale of mobile phones (including smartphones). Moreover, most of them – 99% – are shared between Apple and Samsung. HTC accounts for the remaining 1%. 

In March, the number of downloads of free apps in the United States decreased for the first time in six months. And solidly – by 30%. Following this, the cost of attracting users also dropped a little. Perhaps it’s all about the war that Apple has declared on bots. 

MoPub experts have estimated that in the event of a ban on UDID, Apple will cut developers’ advertising revenue by about 24%.

Kupertinovtsy reported for its second fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2012. At the same time, they reported exactly how many Apple devices were sold over the past three months.

Google’s platform took 61% of the smartphone market of the land of the Rising Sun, iOS in second place. 

The top five highest-grossing games of this week in the US version of iTunes Apple Store and Google Play. From now on, on Thursdays on App2Top.ru .

As soon as Apple released a new iPad, rumors began to spread about a new, new iPad. They say it will be quite small. Why its release will not take place, read below.  

Google’s mobile search platform has doubled its share of the smartphone market in the People’s Republic of China.