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Nielsen: The State of Mobile Apps

September 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Nielsen has generated a new report called The State of Mobile Apps, specially for the AppNation event. Amongst other details, it shows iPhone owners are still consuming the biggest amount of apps.

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Apple Closing the Gap with Nintendo in the US

September 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: DSiWare, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: PSP Minis, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Research from NewZoo shows that Apple is closing the gap between them and Nintendo in the US as Apple has registered over 40 million iOS gamers while Nintendo has 41 million gamers tied to their DS range of consoles.

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OVI, More Numbers

September 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: QT, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: WRT, Research & Stats | No Comments »

John Pope from Nokia has sent us some additional numbers on the Ovi store performance as well as the performance of some of the other Nokia products and services that have been announced at Nokia World yesterday.

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Samsung Apps Live in 109 Countries

September 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Bada, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Samsung has announced that its Samsung Apps channel is now live in 109 countries World-wide. The Samsung Wave is of course dominating the downloads in all of those countries.

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Gartner: Android to be Leading in Four Years

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

According to a study from Gartner, Android keeps picking up speed and with the current growth, it is likely to outnumber Apple’s iOS based devices in North America by the end of the current year.

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Nielsen: 27 Apps on Every US Smartphone

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Nielsen has revealed that the average US smartphone has 27 apps installed. This average is mainly pushed up by Android and iOS where consumers have easy access to free apps and games.

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Apple’s Stats

September 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

As usual, Apple kicked off its iPod event with several statistics in regards to their products. Untill now, Apple shipped over 120 million iPods, iPhones and iPads.

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What we Think About the IMGA

August 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards, Research & Stats | No Comments »

A few weeks back, the International Mobile Game Awards (IMGA) sent out a poll to check what their contacts think about IMGA and where the awardshow should be heading. Last week, the results have been revealed.

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Apple Breaches Through 20K iPad Apps

August 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Apple has breached through the 20.000 iPad applications milestone according to PadGadget and AppShopper. Last week alone, 1.500 new iPad apps have been launched.

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Mobclix: 6/23 iPhone Apps are Fully iPad Compatible

August 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Ad Funded Gaming, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Though all iPhone apps can be ran on the iPad, only 6 out of 23 apps consist of a dedicated layout that is optimized for the iPad’s screen size. The company also revealed some other demographics.