Skyhook Wireless, released its July report on trends in location-aware apps from Apple's App Store, Google's Android Marketplace, Blackberry App World, Nokia's Ovi Store, and the Palm App Catalog. The report shows the evolution of LBS app pricing in the two longest running stores, the Android Marketplace and Apple App Store. In both stores, $0.99 is the most popular paid category, and only a handf...
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
Its not the best apples to apples comparison but Distimo released a report comparing the average software category prices across the competing app stores. Not surprisingly the BlackBerry App World average price is 3 times the competition on average. I know there are probably thousands of apps in the iTunes and Android store that are ...
The goodness of a particular application is in the thumbs of the user. What I consider a good app you might think is crap, and vice versa. This doesnt apply to gatekeepers like Apple and RIM, though. If they dont want you to see an app in the Apple App Store or Blackberry App World, youll have to find it elsewhere. This is a shame, because these app stores are great places for people to find all s...
Canadian Location-based services (LBS) company, Cellflare announced that their Cellflare apps are now available on the Apple App Store, iTunes, as well as the BlackBerry App World. The CellFlare app supports all BlackBerry Devices including the BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Tour, BlackBerry Curve, and BlackBerry Pearl. The Cellflare application uses the GPS system in your mobile device to locate yo...
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...
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
Distimo, a Dutch app store analytics firm, has finally completed their research on the six major mobile app stores: iTunes App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Their findings analyzed store size, store growth, most popular applications, and where you can find the
