MrNumber has shared a curious infographic about American Android users. As it turned out, 63% of Google OS users are absolutely not interested in buying an iPhone.

App2Top.ru together with the Appprofessionals website, he conducts a small survey. You can answer anonymously, but be sure to be honest :) The first 10 who answered – a gift!

Over the past year, the Apple company has lost more than a quarter of the tablet device market in the United States. Now it has a little more than 50%. 

Hello, dear readers of the respected App 2 top!We act on the principle that it is better to ask and make a fool of yourself for five minutes than not to ask, but with consequences.

The budget of the mobile system from the Finnish startup Jolla is already more than 200 million euros, the company’s executive director Jussi Hurmola said in an interview with the Talouselama portal.

One of our readers, independent developer Andrey Gulenko, collected interesting statistics on the release of new applications and updates for iPad in the Russian App Store last September.

Chinese suppliers claim that Microsoft is preparing to produce its own smartphone based on Windows Phone 8.

Rovio until recently was something of an idol for mobile developers, being a company that was able to not only earn money on one game, but also build an entire entertainment empire – with cartoons, coloring books, soft toys and gelatin candies.

The American company Discovery Bay, together with the French from Gameloft, is going to release a full-fledged Duo Gamer iOS game controller that supports iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

Distimo has published a study on the difficulties of translation in the App Store. Analysts found out which language was the most popular in applications in August 2012 and how much localization affects revenue. 

Almost all developers, even beginners, know that making a mobile game is only half the battle. Much more important is the question of how users find out about it. Gamasutra has published the results of a study whose main goal was to get an answer to this question.

Yesterday it became known that Yandex is launching its own app store. Head of Yandex service.Store Alexander Zverev told us about the details of the new app store. 

Last Thursday there was a new game from Rovio – Bad Piggies, which just 4 hours after the release became # 1 in the Top Paid iPhone USA. Has the Finnish company managed to make a new hit that will finally displace Angry Birds? Let’s figure it out.

According to a new point in Apple’s rulebook (Apple’s App Review Guidelines), apps that sell or advertise other people’s apps in a way reminiscent of the App Store will be removed from iTunes.

The popular game for mobile devices Temple Run can now be played without these devices. Imangi Studio, together with Spin Master Games, announced this today on its Facebook page.

A little over a week ago, we wrote that in just 24 hours since the release of iOS 6, 15% of Apple devices were installed. The other day it became known that a week after the release of the new version of the platform was on 60% of the iPhone and 41% of the iPad.

The most interesting articles and materials from App2Top last week: Oleg Pridyuk talks about why you need to work on Unity; Russian developers criticize the new version of iOS; together we analyze the update by the bones; and Aveden experts assure that the ranking algorithm in iOS 6 has changed insignificantly after the update. 

It’s been more than a week since the release of the new iOS and the update of the Apple app store, and the controversy around it has not subsided. How critical were the App Store changes for developers and what do they think about it? Read the continuation of our Friday material.

It is most expensive to advertise mobile games in Canada and Australia, and not in the USA or Japan, according to experts from Chartboost, a cross-promotion company.