Drawing upon user experience evaluations of seven application stores – Android Market, Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Mobango, MOSH, Ovi Store by Nokia and Palm App Catalog – the Strategy Analytics Wireless Media Lab has developed 21 best practice guidelines to provide a superior application store experience. This report, “Mobile Application Stores: Best Practices

There are many App Stores for mobile devices out there, some are successfull and some suck big-time... Why is that? In this article I will try to analyze 6 of the main App stores out there: Apple App Store, Windows Marketplace, Android Market, Blackberry App World, Nokia Ovi Store, Samsung Application Store and search for the reasons behind their success (or doom!).  Success order (my persona...

Distimo, a Dutch analytics firm, presented their findings on the six largest mobile application stores at Mobile World Congress last week. The apps stores Distimo compared are the iTunes App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Distimos presentation is embedded in their blog. They compared

Mobile broadcasting service FlyCast announced the launch of its ADapt Platform, promising desktop websites and content owners a suite of tools to enable mobile broadcasting and audio/video application distribution across smartphone app stores including Apple's App Store, Android Market and BlackBerry App World. According to FlyCast, ADapt--for Application Development and Deployment--easily mi...

Vopium’s award winning mobile VoIP solution is now available on the Nokia Ovi Store portal. This follows positive user feedback from the successful listing on Nokia Download back in May. With the addition of Nokia Ovi Store, Vopium now offers its applications on all major application stores including BlackBerry App World, iPhone App Store, Nokia Download and Android Market. To take advantage...

The Distimo Report is a monthly look at the five big application stores: Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store and Windows Marketplace for Mobile. This months report is based on December 2009 data, and has some interesting findings including: In Google Android Market, 65% of the publishers are located in the United States, 12% in the United Kingdom, 20% in E...

The breakout success of Apple's App Store made it inevitable that rivals would introduce branded mobile content storefronts of their own--in the wake of Google's competing Android Market, launched late last year, the floodgates opened wide in 2009. Both Nokia and Microsoft announced their own branded storefronts during Mobile World Congress in mid-February: Nokia's Ovi Store, which ...

App stores abound these days: Apple’s well-known effort has been joined by Android Market, BlackBerry’s App World, and more recently, Nokia’s Ovi Store, while pretty much every operator, handset vendor and used-car dealer has said they’re going to set up their own shop. A lot of this is based on the huge number of downloads

The Android Market, Google's application store for its mobile OS, has passed the 20,000 app mark. Given Android has only been on the market for just over a year, adding 20,000 new bits o' software in that time frame is a pretty good stat. Admittedly, the App Store from rivals Apple has over 100,000 applications on its books, and had 50,000 in its first year alone. But it shows that Googl...

In many respects the Android Market is the opposite of the App Store. While Apple vets everything, the Android Market is a free-for-all; while Apple offers a desktop and a mobile version, the Market site is useless if you don't access it via an Android device; and while Apple offers update notification (and soon, in-app upgrading) it's up to you to keep an eye out for Android application...