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.

How projects get to the App Store showcase, why iPhone development is not cheap and not fast, why updates are needed and much more is told by one of the authors of the SQUIDS role–playing game.

About a month ago, the seventh conference of developers and publishers of flash, social and mobile games Flash GAMM Kyiv 2011 was held in Kiev. We offer a video from the presentation of Maxim Grynev aka Mokus, the creator of the game Contre Jour, which has collected many international awards.

Users of Windows tablets will be able to run applications written for Android.

The revenues of mobile app developers are three times higher than the revenue from the total sales of these applications. We are talking about the income of companies that create custom applications. Salaries differ significantly from region to region, although in Russia and India they are about the same level.

Razer, a company engaged in the creation of professional gaming equipment, announced its own tablet: its main feature is that it is designed for modern PC games. Other tablet manufacturers are entering a price war with the Kindle Fire, and Apple’s new tablet may be called the iPad 2S.

An hour and a half a day is about how much an American user spends on working with mobile applications. And half of this time falls on games.