2012: Mobile apps will earn 15 billion "dollars"

Research firm Gartner predicts revenue from the app stores worldwide will reach approximately $ 15 billion this year and the number of application downloads will reach a whopping 17.7 billion respectively.

Gartner predicts the app store for mobile devices worldwide will staff the 17.7 billion app downloads (download) this year, up 117% compared with 8.2 billion downloads last year. With the number of downloads as above, the application provider will collect about $ 15 billion this year, up 190% compared to last year (5.2 billion). This profit included are end-user fees to pay when buying applications and ad revenue from applications bring.
Gartner's forecast came after the market research firm IDC expects more mobile applications will be cheaper rate and form of lump-sum payment may gradually replace the ad critical applications to recurring charges or subscription fees. Gartner says 2014 will be over 185 billion applications downloaded from the app store on mobile devices.
Gartner also said that on a platform, Apple's IOS operating system is clearly the market leader, although in the coming years, this spot could be replaced. Carolina Milanesi, Gartner's vice president, said last year in 10 downloaded applications is almost 9 applications downloaded from Apple's application store (App Store) and forecast to 2014, App Store is a repository many applications are the most popular users.
According to IDC, the segment of the tablet (tablet), the iPad has proved superior. Currently, the number of downloaded applications on smart phones (smartphones) have stabilized, while the trend of load application on the tablet more and more.

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