Revenues from freemium applications in 2011 almost reached $ 1 billion. According to forecasts, by 2015 the figure will increase at least five times.

Analysts have found out that the secondary iPhone market is developing no less actively than the primary one. And every year it becomes more and more important not only for Apple itself, but also for foreign operators.

In the future, we are waiting for a reduction in the range of smartphones: most manufacturers want to follow the path of Apple.

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.

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.

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

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

The first unofficial data about the new Apple device has appeared. It will be a tablet with a reduced screen diagonal compared to the iPad.

On the territory of the Russian Federation, the iPhone 4S has officially begun to be sold. There were queues.

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

OnLive cloud service has become available for Android users. One of the first games specially adapted for tablets was L.A. Noir from Rockstar Games.

HTC has officially announced a drop in sales. Its struggle with the market leaders – Apple and Samsung – is escalating.

Apple is launching a model for selling iPad games by monthly subscription. The first publisher to try it out will be the American company Big Fish Games.

Apple has started accepting Chinese yuan payments in the App Store. This is due to the expansion of the company’s activities into a key emerging market.

Apple has informed developers that iTunes Connect will be closed from December 22 to December 29. At this time, you will not be able to launch new applications, make updates or change the price.

Nielsen recently published a study according to which 62% of American mobile users aged 25 to 34 have smartphones; at the same time, half of smartphone owners are people aged 18 to 24.

Apple has become the most profitable manufacturer of mobile devices, collecting 52% of the operating profit of this industry in the last quarter. At the same time, Apple’s share in the smartphone market was only 4.2%.