Several news from Apple at once: the company’s quarterly revenue amounted to $ 46 billion; the largest operator in the United States announced that 50% of “New Year’s” smartphone sales were on the iPhone (good-bye Android); fans of “smart devices” after experience with other platforms switch to iOS. 

According to American analysts from Strategy Analytics and RBC Capital Market, mobile platforms have been on the market for no more than ten years. Based on this theory, the researchers assumed that iOS and Android will cease to exist in five to six years. 

The nonprofit organization The Pew Research Center conducted a study in which it found that over the Christmas season, the number of tablets among the adult population of the United States doubled.

IHS analysts are confident that by the end of 2015, Windows Phone-based devices will overtake Apple gadgets in shipments.

Android has 250 million activated devices; every tenth Korean calls Samsung Galaxy S II; threats to the mobile market.

According to statistics, iOS is the most popular mobile platform among corporate employees.

We offer you to listen to the material that we published this week. Which projects are becoming the most successful on the App Store and why, why you need a feature, and what is a “jackpot” game – about all this in our new podcast.

The Apple company has introduced three educational services in New York. Together, they give the iPad a huge potential as a learning platform. 

In the material: more than half of the owners of smartphones and tablets are willing to tolerate advertising in exchange for access to free content; a few statistics regarding the love of users for free applications.

In the last three months, the share of iPhone sales in the smartphone market has doubled. The reason for the growth was the release of the iPhone 4S. Despite this, the market situation has hardly changed: Android is still in the lead. In addition, smartphones are displacing mobile phones from the market.

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.

Smartphones are very popular these days, but because of the high prices, few can afford them. Analysts at Deloitte claim that because of this, devices with reduced functionality at a price of $ 100 and below will be especially popular on the market.

Which projects are becoming the most successful on the App Store and why, why you need a feature, and what is a “jackpot” game – about all this in our new material.

Intel and Samsung are joining forces to work on a new mobile platform. The new brainchild will be a synthesis of the bada and Tizen operating systems.

The Android Market service is unlikely to appear on the Chinese market in the near future. The “censorship issue” interferes.

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.

While everyone was resting, the analysts worked and counted, tirelessly using calculators. A few statistics on the number of downloads on iOS and Android, data on the sales of the devices themselves and valuable information about what users are doing.