Although Apple’s iOS is still more popular among developers, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows Phone platforms are already on its heels, according to the latest survey of developers hosting apps on GetJar, a cross-platform app store.

Developing apps for Apple’s App Store is not an easy task. Developers are always afraid that their application will not be approved in the App Store, which is one of the best application markets in the mobile industry.

Nielsen research company has published the latest information on the age and gender of American smartphone and tablet owners. If earlier it was mainly young men, now the accents have shifted.

It’s not enough just to create a mobile app, you need to know how to sell it profitably. The best and most profitable way is to place your product in one of the app stores, for example, on the Apple App Store or Google Android Market.  Each of them has its own rules, but, nevertheless, it is possible to give some general recommendations.

Creating an app is half the battle. After that, a lot needs to be done to make people aware of its existence. But even earlier it is necessary to make an important decision that can decide the fate of your application…

TeleNav conducted a study to determine the degree of attachment of Americans to their mobile phones. The results showed that iPhone owners are most attached to their devices.

The number of applications for Windows Phone 7 (WP7), according to the official Microsoft blog, has reached 30,000.

The In-Stat research company states that the demand for 3D devices contributes to the development of technologies and predicts an increase in 3D devices to 148 million by 2015.

According to a Nielsen Smartphone Analytics study, the average Android smartphone owner spends an average of 56 minutes a day on apps and the Internet, and two-thirds of that time is spent on apps.

Microsoft’s share in the smartphone market stopped decreasing six months after the new Windows Phone 7 (WP7) OS appeared. However, sales of devices with this operating system do not inspire hopes.

Which application is more successful: the one that attracts a wide audience, or the one that is created for a narrow segment? Are you ready to increase ROI by reducing the number of users?  Or make the application free at first, knowing that a lot of people will not buy anything, and then, after expanding the user base, paid? In a word, how to create a successful mobile application?

62% of the survey participants conducted by Hi-Tech@Mail.En Among 50,000 Russian Internet users, we are convinced that Android tablets are competitors to the Apple iPad 2.

Distimo conducted a study of the mobile gaming applications market for the period from June 2010 to June 2011 on major sites, including Apple App Store for iPad and iPhone, BlackBerry App World, GetJar, Google Android Market, Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.

South Korea came in third place in the world in terms of the number of downloads of free apps from the App Store, pushing the UK into fourth place. The USA and China are in first and second place.

Google’s Android mobile operating system has surpassed Apple’s iPhone in terms of sales for the first time. Over the past 4 months, sales of Android-based smartphones have amounted to 54% with the share of the iPhone at 29%.

Flurry Analytics analyzed 57 million purchases of items in freemium games on iOS and Android platforms. During the first half of 2011, freemium games (also known as free-to-play – you can download them for free, but for a faster passage of the game you need to purchase various items and artifacts) became leaders in revenue among the top 100 apps in the App Store. They account for 65% of transactions, while paid applications have faded…

There are many errors that can directly affect the success of your application. Most of them are committed by developers even before the start of development, at the planning stage. Mutual Mobile, which has launched more than a hundred successful applications for mobile platforms, shared secrets about how to develop products as efficiently as possible.

What is the best way to monetize an app? Where is more money? What do developers choose more often? Flurry recently answered these and other questions by analyzing the revenues of the top 100 apps in the App Store.

iPhone owners live in cities and earn more than $200,000 a year, and Android users usually have only a secondary education. Hunch came to such conclusions after analyzing the data of 700 thousand mobile phone owners.