Archive for the ‘BlackBerry App World’ Category
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Report.
This report covers the Apple App Store for iPad, the Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World (worldwide), Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile for July 2010 in the United States. The major findings are:
- The average price of the 100 most popular applications in Google Android Market and Palm App Catalog is higher than the average price of the entire catalogue of applications.
- While the average price of all applications is only 16% higher in the Apple App Store for iPad than in the Apple App Store for iPhone, the average price of the 100 most popular applications is nearly three times as high in the Apple App Store for iPad.
- More than 60% of applications are priced below or equal to $2.00 in the Apple App Store for iPhone, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store and Palm App Catalog.The proportion of applications priced below or equal to $2.00 is much lower in the Apple App Store for iPad and Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
- Paid applications are priced lowest in Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store and Palm App Catalog.
- Google Android Market has the largest share of free applications available; 60%, representing an increase of 3% since May 2010 when it was 57%.The share of free applications is smallest on Windows Marketplace for Mobile (22%), followed by the Apple App Store for iPad (26%) and BlackBerry App World (26%).
- The top three cross-store publishers that publish applications in multiple stores are Gameloft, Electronic Arts and Handmark, Inc.
- In the Apple App Store for iPad, BlackBerry App World and Windows Marketplace for Mobile, the respective companies that run each application store, (Apple, Research In Motion and Microsoft) are the top publishers in their own store with only a limited number of applications. Clickgamer.com and Offscreen publish many popular games in the Apple App Store for iPhone and Nokia Ovi Store making them the top publishers in these stores.
- The top grossing publisher in the Apple App Store for iPhone is Electronic Arts, which publishes free and paid applications as well as applications with in-app purchases.
You can download the report for free here.
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
RIM just updated BlackBerry App World to 2.0, with the following new features:
- Credit card and wireless billing options: Previously, only PayPal was supported. Now, BlackBerry App World also supports paying for apps using a credit card or through operating billing.
- Barcode scanning capabilities: Now users can also scan barcodes that will direct them to the app in App World instantly.
- Apps starting at 99 cents: Previously, paid apps started at $2.99. Now developers can charge either $0.99 or $1.99 as well.
- ‘Streamlined’ My World View: A more simplified view of the applications that are installed, archived, deleted or pending.
- New ‘Top 25′ Lists; Themes, Newest Apps, Updated Apps and more
- BlackBerry ID: Using BlackBerry ID, people can log in to App World using their email address and password. This will enable them to access all downloads on their smartphones or computers. More importantly however, users with multiple BlackBerry devices can switch devices while keeping their applications.
These features are all welcome additions. However, as Engadget reports, the revenue split developers receive is down from 80% to 70%, significantly lowering the revenue developers receive.
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Report.
This report covers the Apple App Store for iPad and iPhone (with specific focus on in-app purchases), as well as BlackBerry App World (Worldwide), Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile for June 2010 in the United States. The major findings are:
- The percentage of applications with in-app purchases is significantly higher in the Apple App Store for iPad (10%) than in the Apple App Store for iPhone (2%). The Games and Social Networking categories in both stores have the highest proportion of applications with in-app purchases available.
- The most successful free applications that monetized using in-app purchases this month in the Apple App Store for iPhone are MobiTV (MobiTV), ESPN 2010 FIFA World Cup (ESPN) and Tap Fish (BayView Labs).
- The most successful paid applications that monetized using in-app purchases this month in the Apple App Store for iPhone are Guitar Hero (Activision Publishing, Inc.), TomTom U.S.A. (TomTom International BV) and Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies II (Activision Publishing, Inc.).
- Mirroring the Distimo report covering May 2010, Pages and iBooks, published by Apple Inc, are again the number one paid and free applications on the Apple App Store for iPad, respectively.
- Three out of the ten most popular applications in the Apple App Store for iPhone were published by Electronic Arts.
- Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite for iPad entered the top 10 highest ranked paid applications chart in the 6th position. It was the
top grossing application in the Apple App Store for iPad after Pages by Apple Inc.
- Nine out of the ten most popular paid applications on the Apple App Store for iPhone are Games, however only two out of the ten most popular free applications are Games. In the Nokia Ovi Store, seven out of ten of the most popular paid applications are Games, while only three out of ten of the most popular free applications are Games.
You can download the report for free here.
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
Mobile Business Briefing reports that Research In Motion is to launch a Chinese version of BlackBerry App World ‘as part of a major company push into the world’s largest mobile market’. China’s head of RIM told Returs that App World will launch ’soon’.
In May BlackBerry services were launched in China via CDMA carrier China Telecom, and China Mobile is working with RIM on the production of devices capable of supporting its 3G network; currently BlackBerry services are only offered over their 2G GSM network.
According to the company, applications are downloaded at a rate approaching 1 million a day. As there are now 8,563 applications available, this amounts to about 120 downloads a day per application on average (at max).
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Report.
This report covers the Apple App Store for iPad, the Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World (Worldwide), Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile for May 2010 in the United States. The major findings are:
- More than 50% of applications are priced below or equal to $2.00 in all stores, with the exception of BlackBerry App World and Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
- The average price of all paid applications and the 100 most popular paid applications in the Apple App Store for iPad ($4.65) is higher than in the Apple App Store for iPhone ($4.01). However, the average price of the 100 top grossing applications is higher on the Apple App Store for iPhone.
- Google Android Market has the largest share of free applications (57%) and Windows Marketplace for Mobile has the smallest (22%).
- Twitter, Inc. published their native application in the Apple App Store and Google Android Market, becoming the monthly number 10 free application in the Apple App Store for iPhone, and the number 6 free application in Google Android Market.
- Nine out of the ten most popular free applications and eight out of ten most popular paid applications in the Apple App Store for iPhone are games.
- In the competitive e-reader market, both the iBooks application by Apple, Inc., and the Kindle application by Amazon.com are ranked among the 10 most popular free applications in the Apple App Store for iPad. Apple’s application is ranked number one however, and Amazon’s application is ranked number ten.
- Five out of the ten most popular free applications in Windows Marketplace for Mobile are published by Microsoft Corporation.
You can download the report for free here.
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
RIM is finishing a set of new devices and software to keep competing with touch-screen devices like Apple’s iPhone and iPad. RIM still sells more smartphones globally than any other company, only Nokia sells more on a yearly basis. But its North American market share is decreasing, as RIM has been slow to match Apple and Android’s touch-screen technology, smooth Internet-browsing capability and add-on software.
According to rumors, RIM is testing a touch-screen smartphone with a slide-out keyboard, also rumored as the BlackBerry Bold Slider. The phone runs on the new BlackBerry OS 6.0, which will make its debut by the end of the 3rd quarter. A major new feature of this new version of BlackBerry OS is that a BlackBerry running on this version works much like an iPhone, letting users swipe through screens and expand images with their fingers.
RIM is also testing a tablet device to serve as a larger-screen companion to its BlackBerry phone, according to people familiar with RIM’s plans. Nothing is yet confirmed regarding RIM’s tablet but the info going around the web paints the picture of a sub-10-inch touchscreen-equipped device that won’t have 3G support, instead relying on a BlackBerry to connect to a cellular network. The tablet could also be powered by the upcoming BlackBerry OS 6, including BlackBerry App World.
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
RIM has launched BlackBerry App World in Japan. BlackBerry App World, the official on-device app store for BlackBerry smartphones, allows BlackBerry users to easily discover and download applications that are purposely built for their BlackBerry smartphones. “We are very pleased to offer the App World experience to our customers in Japan,” said Ueno Kimiaki, Managing Director of Japan, Research In Motion.
According to RIM, BlackBerry users can now download BlackBerry App World directly to their smartphone by visiting mobile.blackberry.com. BlackBerry App World is also accessible from a user’s desktop computer at http://ap.blackberry.com/jpn/appworld.
At the moment, the Japanese App World contains only free applications and the amount of applications is therefore less than in the United States or United Kingdom, for example. A date for the introduction of paid apps in Japan is not yet set.
We also updated this on appstores.info.
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Report.
This report covers the Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile for April 2010, with additional focus on iPhone applications in the Apple App Store during the period November 2009 – April 2010. The major findings are:
- In the Apple App Store, paid applications in the Top Overall, Games, Business and Entertainment categories stay in these categories for 27, 39, 59 and 38 days on average, respectively. Free applications stay in the Top 100 for a significantly shorter time in the Top Overall, Games and Business categories, with 19, 21 and 39 days on average, respectively. In contrast to these categories, free applications in the Entertainment category stay in the Top 100 for a slightly longer period of time than paid applications; 43 days compared to 38 days.
- In the Apple App Store, the majority of paid applications that have been in the Top 100 Overall during the entire period of November 2009 – April 2010 fall into the Games and Entertainment categories. The paid applications that have been in the Top 5 for the longest period of time are Doodle Jump (140 days), RedLaser (73 days) and Skee-Ball (68 days). The paid application that has been number one for the longest period of time is Skee-Ball (24 days). The free applications that have been in the Top 5 for the longest period of time are Facebook (12 days) and Paper Toss (7 days).
- The majority of the 10 highest ranked paid applications were published in the following categories in April 2010: Productivity (Apple App Store for iPad), Games (Apple App Store for iPhone), Themes (BlackBerry App World), News & Weather (Google Android Market), Games (Nokia Ovi Store), Productivity & Utilities (Palm App Catalog) and in Games (Windows Marketplace for Mobile).
- The majority of the 10 highest ranked free applications were published in the following categories in April 2010: Games and Entertainment (Apple App Store for iPad), Games (Apple App Store for iPhone), Music & Audio/IM & Social Networking/Themes (BlackBerry App World), Tools and Social (Google Android Market), Games and Entertainment (Nokia Ovi Store), Games (Palm App Catalog) and Social Networks/News & Weather (Windows Marketplace for Mobile).
- In April 2010, the highest ranked paid iPad application in the Apple App Store was Pages, followed by GoodReader for iPad, and Pinball HD. The highest ranked free iPad application in the Apple App Store was iBooks, followed by The Solitaire and Break HD Free.
You can download the report for free here.
Tags: apple app store, BlackBerry App World, google android market, ipad, iphone, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog, Windows Marketplace
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
According to crackberry, a website aimed to Blackberry users, the terms and conditions of Blackberry App World are updated. With the new terms, carrier- and credit card billing will be possible in the near future as annouched at the BlackBerry Developers Conference in November 2009.
Until now, only payments via the PayPal platform were possible. A big advantage of carrier billing is that it can allow a consumer to buy an application with a single click, whereas for PayPal a signup is required first. However, the new payment options come with a price, since the applicable 80/20 revenue split has changed to the more common 70/30 split. The same revenue share for developers as we see nowadays on other platforms like the Apple Appstore and Android Market.
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
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Today Adobe announced at the Mobile World Congress that they are going to extend their AIR platform to mobile devices, helping out many mobile developers facing problems with deployment on multiple platforms.
AIR runtime lets developers use web technologies to build rich Internet applications that run outside the browser on multiple operating systems. Today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Adobe will, according to their press release, announce the extension of AIR to mobile devices, starting with Android and Blackberry OS by 2010. Developers can now develop applications for Android and deploy the application at the same time to desktop environments like Windows, Mac and Linux or, by using the iPhone Flash package, to the iPhone.
With support for mobile devices Adobe AIR includes specific functionality offered by mobile operating systems and devices such as multi-touch, gesture inputs, accelerometers, geolocation and screen orientation. The AIR team already worked with several developers of applications currently available in the Apple App Store to get their apps running on AIR Android, including Southpark Avatar Creator and many games.
There is more to be announced the coming days at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona; we will keep you informed. Distimo is present at the congress as well. If you want to meet, please contact us!
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