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Distimo Releases August Report

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

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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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Distimo Report July 2010

Friday, July 30th, 2010

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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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Windows Phone Marketplace To Launch In 17 Countries This Holiday Season

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
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Aaron Woodman of Microsoft just put a post online on their blog, giving more details about Windows Phone 7 and its ‘Windows Phone Marketplace’. He announced that Windows Phone 7 will still be available this holiday season. At first, Windows Phone 7 will support 5 languages; English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.

Most importantly however, the Windows Phone Marketplace will support ‘the buying and selling of applications in 17 countries’: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Currently, Windows Marketplace for Mobile is available in 30 countries worldwide.

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Distimo Publishes Latest Report: June 2010

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Distimo Report LogoIt 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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Distimo Publishes Latest Report: May 2010

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Distimo Report LogoIt 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.

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Microsoft Announces Marketplace Update For Windows Phone 7

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Right now Microsoft is holding its MiX10 conference in Las Vegas. At this conference the company announced new details on its upcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system. One of the announcements is an updated version of the Windows Marketplace that will come with the Windows Phone 7 Series. The first of these phones will become available in the holiday season, end of this year.

A brief summary of the most important announcements considering Windows Marketplace:

  • The store will be renamed to Windows Phone Marketplace.
  • The only way to get apps on a Windows Phone 7 mobile phone will be via the Marketplace. This can have a huge impact on the many existing app stores that offer content for the Windows Mobile platform.
  • Developers can offer free trails of their apps and decide when a trial ends themselves. Users will not have to re-download apps to go from the trial to full version.
  • Users that have purchased an application can re-download it on a new Windows Phone.
  • The store will get a major interface update, see for example the screenshot below.

It is not clear yet if this update or parts of it will also be applied for Windows Mobile 6.5 users of the current Windows Marketplace. More details are likely to be announced over the coming weeks.

A demo of the new Windows Phone Marketplace is available on Engadget. Information for developers here.

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Microsoft Announces Microsoft Phone at MWC2010

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

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As expected Microsoft announced yesterday, on Mobile World Congress, their new Mobile OS and rebranded it from Windows Mobile 7 to Windows Phone. Microsoft rebuilt the OS from the ground up and scrapped almost everything from the look and feel down to the  code.

The OS will look quite like the interface already in place on the Zune HD and includes all techniques available on most modern smartphones. The OS has deep integration with Xbox LIVE and Zune and new and improved social networking tools which allows fast access to content in the cloud.

Windows Marketplace will of course be an important part of the new experience, allowing customer to personalize the phone to their needs. Given Microsoft’s choice to completely redesign the core, applications available to Windows Mobile 6 will not work on Windows Phone.

Given the buzz on Twitter at the moment and the positive press it seems that Microsoft will again successfully introduce an OS in the 7 series. Still, the question remains whether Microsoft is in time. The iPhone is already in market for almost 3 years and the first phones will only be available by holiday season 2010, i.e. end of this year.

Windows Phone 7 Series

Windows Phone 7 Series

According to the press release, partners from around the world have committed to include Windows Phone 7 Series in their portfolio plans. They include mobile operators AT&T, Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange, SFR, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telstra, T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone and manufacturers Dell, Garmin-Asus, HTC Corp., HP, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Qualcomm Inc. These partners are not, like in the past, free to develop the phones at their will, because Microsoft set rigid specifications that have to be met like the buttons configuration, CPU speed and memory.

Since Microsoft suggests that mobile devices will become more important than PC’s and estimates that more than 1 billion mobile devices will access the Internet in 2010 they surely see the importance of the market and given their long breath in the game console market they might succeed with the new OS. Very important to be successful will be the content in the marketplace, which according to our latest report (January 2010) is very limited in their Marketplace for Mobile today.

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Distimo Report – December 2009

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
It is our pleasure to release our monthly Distimo Report, based on December 2009 data. Distimo Report Logo
This report covers five application stores: Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store and Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

This month’s most important findings are:

  • In Google Android Market, 65% of the publishers are located in the United States, 12% in the United Kingdom, 20% in Europe and 3% in Japan.
  • Publishers located in Europe price their applications highest with an average of $4.42, which is 49% higher than publishers located in the United States.
  • Applications in Apple App Store, Google Android Market and Nokia Ovi Store are priced at around $3.50. Windows Marketplace for Mobile and BlackBerry App World are more expensive, averaging $6.99 and $8.26 respectively.
  • Because of Microsoft’s market validation guidelines and additional fees for distributing applications in more than one country, the number of applications available in some countries is only a small percentage (<5%) of applications available worldwide.

You can download the report here.

This report was covered on TechCrunch here.

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Windows Marketplace Available For Older Phones

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

There are several announcements around Windows Marketplace for Mobile these weeks. Last week, Microsoft launched a Web Version of its store, allowing users to discover apps from the desktop.

Following the announcements that Marketplace would support older phones, the store is now available for Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 phones. Consumers that do not have a brand new phone with Windows Mobile 6.5 can now also get Marketplace on their phone and start downloading apps.

To reach the announced 30 million consumers worldwide with access to the store, this was a required step for Microsoft. However, the reach will have to build up since users with an older Windows phone will have to install Marketplace manually first.

If you have a Windows Mobile 6.0 or 6.1 phone, you can download Marketplace here.

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Windows Marketplace: More Phones And Web Store

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Windows Marketplace for Mobile was launched at the beginning of October. Until now, it has been available for only new Windows Mobile phones with the latest 6.5 version of the operating system. Microsoft indicated that Marketplace for Mobile would gain a reach of 30 million consumers worldwide. To get to this number, existing Windows Mobile phones with older operating system version also need to be supported. And that’s exactly what Microsoft announced. Later this month, Marketplace will also be available for consumers with Windows Mobile 6.0 or 6.1 phones, which will greatly improve the reach of the store.

A second announcement is that Microsoft now launched a Web version of its store, following the steps of RIM:

Windows Marketplace Web Version

Windows Marketplace Web Version

Users of a Windows Mobile phone can use this Web version to browse the full content catalog and download/purchase applications. The selected applications are delivered wirelessly to the customer’s Windows phone and install the next time the Windows Marketplace client runs on the device. At launch there were 246 applications available in Marketplace. Today, the United States version contains 386 apps in total.

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