Archive for the ‘Research & Stats’ Category

ABI Research: Symbian and Android Will Grow Fastest

August 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

According to ABI Research, Symbian and Android will be the fastest growing mobile operating systems over the coming years. Growth will mainly come from developing countries.

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NPD: Android Takes the Lead, Google: 200.000 New Androids a Day

August 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

NPD has announced that Android is the leading platform in the US. Google’s Eric Schmidt announced that the company is currently registering 200.000 new Android phones a day.

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Canalys: Nokia Still Leading in Q2 2010

August 2nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

According to Canalys, Nokia is still leading Phone sales on a global level. Canalys includes not only smartphone, but also featurephone sales over all markets.

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Nielsen: iPhone 4 Doesn’t Beat Android

August 2nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

According to the latest US numbers from research company Nielsen, Android is growing faster than the iPhone while the BlackBerry still hasn’t been beaten off its throne.

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Q2 Stats: Angry Birds Sell Best

July 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Together with iGameStats, MGB is providing quarterly insights into the App Store. In our first post, we announced Capcom as the best quality publisher. This time we look at the revenues and see Angry Birds as the winner.

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Q2 Stats: Capcom Best Publisher

July 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

In cooperation with iGameStats, MGB is releasing the second quarterly quality report 2010 for the App Store. In this edition, Capcom has taken top spot amongst developers while Chaos Rings is the best game.

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Resolve: iPad Threatens e-Readers and Handhelds

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

According to a study from Resolve Market Research, 38% of iPad owners say they are no longer interested in buying an handheld gaming console over half of them is no longer interested in e-readers.

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ComScore: Android Continues Growth in US

July 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Research & Stats | 1 Comment »

While all platforms lost marketshare, Android id continuing growth in the three month period ending May 2010. At that time, 49.1 million US citizens owned a smartphone.

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AppStoreHQ: iOS Most Popular Development Platform

July 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Vision Mobile is not the only researcher to poll mobile developers. AppStoreHQ also checked the cross-platform interest of mobile developers and discovered it is very limited.

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Vision Mobile: Android Most Popular Development Platform

July 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

Vision Mobile has sent out an enquiery to 400 developers to track their thoughts on all those different mobile development platforms out there. It turns out Android is the most popular of them.