Just over three months ago on September 28 2009, Apples App Store hit the two billion downloaded apps milestone. Today, Apple has announced that the App Store has reached three billion downloads, in only 98 days since its last milestone! The App Store currently has over 125,000 active applications. As comparison, the Blackberry Market has 4,000 apps and the Android Market has over 18,000. The succ...

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

We've covered a couple of Distimo reports in the past because they provide us with some valuable insights on Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market based on the startup's in-depth analysis of publicly available data. Now the company has added RIM’s Blackberry App World store to the fray, which gives us even more data points to compare the rivals' app pricing a...

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...

Mplayit, the worlds largest mobile app store has made a better way to view applications in the Android Market. Already selling apps for a number of different platforms such as Apple, Blackberry, Android get the Facebook treatment. Their website, is an application hosted on Facebook. This allows users to share and review applications among

The latest research from Gartner indicates that, for the year 2009, only 16 million app sales were executed on mobile devices not bearing the infamous bitten apple logo. In reporting this data, Ars Technica inadvertently conflates Apple's latest announcement of three billion apps downloaded with the notion of three billion apps sold and pegs the App Store's market share at a whopping 99....

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...

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...

During the 2010 Mobile World Congress, a company called Distimo gave a presentation, showing off their findings when comparing the top 6 mobile app stores. These include the Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog, and Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Distimo compared numerous aspects, including number of

The Google Android Market has reached a signficant milestone since it was launched more than a year ago. The applications store for Google Android handsets is now offering more than 20,000 apps. Around 62% of the products available via  the Android Market are free while 38% can be obtained with a small fee. In comparison, the Apple’s App Store is currently offering more than 100,000 app...