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Mobile app revenue jumped 35 percent last year on iOS and Android

01/12/201801/10/2018 Sam Lambert

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Over the last couple of years, there have been concerns about app sales dropping off – so far so good. The last couple of years have been worrisome for developers and their mobile app revenue. Many experts have suggested that smartphone apps have either peaked or are dying off and are no longer worth creating. However, the revenue growth experienced last year suggests that there is life yet in the application market. Developers that still have incredible app ideas up their sleeves may still have considerable opportunities to take advantage…

Mobile apps were highly downloaded in November, Fiksu

01/02/201512/31/2014 Jennifer Goula

That month saw a massive growth of 42 percent over the same month in 2013, for free applications. The most recent Fiksu App Store Competitive Index has now revealed that in November, there was a tremendous jump in the volume of downloads of mobile apps when compared to those that had been downloaded the year before. This took into account the mobile applications that were downloaded for free, though paid apps were not tracked. Fiksu’s index provides tracking of the average aggregate daily download volume at the iOS app store,…

Mobile app development is rarely financially successful

01/15/201401/13/2014 Jennifer Goula

Recent research from Gartner has shown that less than 001 percent of applications succeed in earnings. According to some of the latest mobile app development data from Gartner, less than 0.01 percent of consumer applications that are created and made available to smartphone and tablet users will actually be considered to be a financial success from now through the end of 2018. This is not promising information for application developers, but it does show the importance of best practices. Gartner also pointed out that approximately 90 percent of mobile app…

Research shows Android to surpass Apple in downloaded apps for first time

09/10/201109/10/2011 Sam Lambert

Ovum, a research firm, has announced that Android will be overtaking apple in the number of downloaded applications for the first time in the history of the companies. The research has indicated that by the end of this year, Android will have achieved 8.1 billion downloads, when compared to 6 billion downloads that will have been made through iOS mobile devices manufactured by Apple. This reflects a tremendous year of growth for both platforms, as last year’s download totals were 1.4 billion for Android and 2.7 billion for Apple iOS…