Mobile app predictions for 2013 from Gartner:
- 21.6 billion apps downloaded (about 2.5 billion in 2009)
- $29.5 billion revenue
- 25% of revenue will be free apps using advertising ($7.3 billion)
- 2009: a downloaded app generates $1.68 of revenue
- 2013 (estimated): a downloaded app generates $1.36 of revenue
“Sam Altman, the chief executive of Loopt, a mobile tracking service that allows users to monitor friends’ locations using the G.P.S. software on their cellphones, said he was seeing social mores shift firsthand. About 20 percent of Loopt’s users are couples who buy the service to keep track of each other’s whereabouts. But in the past six months, there has been an increase in the number of customers who use fake locations as a decoy so a person doesn’t know where they are, Mr. Altman said, a service that Loopt offers.”
developers, carriers, publishers and others in the ecosystem should consider it a new operating system. That’s because Samsung has built an accompanying SDK today, which will act as the blueprint for anything that is built for the platform. In other words, applications built for Java, Android, Symbian, the iPhone, or any other smartphone platform won’t be compatible. Welcome Samsung to the world of more fragmentation.
Welcome to the exciting world of the walled garden.
“The company wants to be a total provider like Apple, with its own platform and app store… Being a total provider is every company’s dream right now.”
Amazing story of Motorola’s 2009 Q4 offerings from a year ago. How’d they get so lucky with Verizon?
Moto’s CEO is one of the highest paid CEOs anywhere, if he makes Droid work, he’ll have earned it.
Oh benevolent bureaucracy, you can help create domestic saturation of markets and build world handset manufacturers but then you fail to make any decent smartphone to take on the world.
The iPhone entering Korea after 190 countries have already approved it is an embarassing test of regulatory failure. Opening markets will undoubtedly help but it will take time for Samsung and LG to catchup.
Some interesting numbers from mobile about who is #1. Intriguing to see AOL #1 at anything beside suck.
This is now a grudge match. Who will buy whom? It’s only a matter of time.