Distimo conducted a study of the effectiveness of the feature on the main mobile markets.

According to the results of the fourth quarter of 2011, Apple is the world leader in smartphone shipments. As for the tablet market, Android-based products are actively gaining points here. Windows, surprisingly, is also not lagging behind. 

In a few minutes you will find out how many billions of dollars Apple has paid to developers, how many downloads there were in the Android Market and how Christmas affected tablet sales.

What is convenient about F2P, why it is not necessary to finish the games to the end, which is a key factor in the success of free-to-play projects, as well as many other things are told by game designer Pascal Luban.

Five small tips for promoting applications are given by an experienced developer Priya Viswanathan. According to her, following them, you can easily save on marketers and advertising. 

Yesterday we wrote about the record earnings of Apple itself, now it’s time to talk about how much developers have earned on applications so far. 

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.