The average number of daily iPhone downloads after the new Apple device appeared on the market jumped by almost 1.5 million, while the cost of the user fell markedly. 

The most important news and articles of the last week: Benoit Sokal makes a multiplatform “Siberia III”, Zynga is at odds with Facebook, the Amazon mobile store appeared in Japan, App Annie told everything about the mobile application market and much, much more. 

According to print and online media, official sales of e-books and tablets under the Nook brand, which are produced by Barnes & Noble, may begin in Russia during 2013.

The creators of Clash of the Clans earn more on two projects per month than the French – on 259 games; strategies and gambling bring the most money on iOS; on Android, users prefer to spend money on games from casual and arcade categories.

Yesterday, in its official blog, Microsoft announced the cost of a new Surface – the Surface Pro, which runs on an Intel processor. The device will go on sale in January.

With a delay of about a month, Apple still released an updated version of its “media store” – iTunes 11. Yesterday, November 29, the program became available to OS X and Windows users.

The App Store is the most profitable mobile market in the world, but Google Play is catching up with it, thanks to the growing popularity of Android in the markets of Japan and South Korea.

On the night of November 29-30, Moscow time, it became known that the union of the two titans had collapsed. Facebook is now working with Zynga on standard terms. 

Fat Pebble Studio and the well-known company Zynga yesterday released a mobile game Clay Jam, performed in a very unusual “plasticine” style.

The Chinese studio Spicy Horse Games, headed by the famous game designer American McGee, announced that a beta version of its free turn-based game Crazy Fairies is available on Google Play.

According to RIA Novosti, Apple plans to launch the iTunes Store in Russia in early December.

Yesterday, Flurry analysts published a report on the spread of mobile devices in the world. Judging by the growing popularity of mobile devices in China, China will overtake the United States in terms of the number of active gadgets in the next quarter.

A third of American teenagers use mobile devices to do their homework. The relevance of training applications is growing. At the same time, no one is in a hurry to make money in this market. What is the reason, App2Top figured it out.

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Phone 7.8 as an update will be released only in early 2013.

Slightly less than half of smartphone users in the UK never pay for apps, the portal MyVoucherCodes, which deals with discounts, found out.

Amazon continues its global expansion. Yesterday she launched the Japanese version of her app store. Apparently, it’s not long to wait for the announcement of the Kindle Fire in this market.   

On December 11, the next MAD’Day will take place in St. Petersburg. The event will discuss the development of mobile applications and the prospects for their use in business.

The iconic dreamcast game Jet Set Radio is now available to owners of iOS-based mobile devices.