Vincent Hoogsteder

Company: Distimo

vincent@distimo.com

Opera, the company behind the well-known Opera Mini web browser, has just launch an App Store, called Opera Mobile Store. Opera will promote the store trough it’s Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browser installed base of 100 million consumers, according Opera. The store is developed and maintained by Appia (former PocketGear). Both free and paid applications are supp...

This week the Washington Post published an article that the FTC will review Apple iPhone in-app purchases. This is said to be necessary as many children may not understand the consequences of the purchases they make in games, leaving parents with high end of the month credit card bills. The FTC will according to their Chairman Jon Leibowitz  ”[..] look closely at ...

It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Publication. This publication covers the Apple App Store for iPad, the Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog, Windows Marketplace for Mobile (6.x), and Windows Phone 7 Marketplace during January 2011. The major findings are: Two app stor...

Part One: First Apps With In-App Purchases Enter BlackBerry App World Recently, RIM introduced a Payment Service SDK to enable in-app payments for developers. This morning (European time-zone), an update of BlackBerry App World was released that now supports in-app purchases. The first applications that offer these purchases to consumers are already available. ...

RIM, following Apple who introduced in-app purchases 1.5 year ago, introduced a Payment Service SDK to enable in-app payments. As we showed in our latest report, in the Apple App Store for iPhone in the United States, almost 50% of the revenue of the top grossing applications was generated by applications carrying in-app purchases. For developers this enables a range ...

With more than 40% of all smartphones shipments in the U.S. being an Android device, the penetration rate of Android 2.2 exceeded 50% over the holiday period. Early December we wrote that Android 2.2 was the O.S. on 43.4% of all Android phones, which comes down to an increase of 8.4% to 51.8% over just one month. In the graph below are the percentages of each indi...

It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Report. This report covers the Apple App Store for iPad, the Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile (Windows Mobile 6.x) during October 2010 in the United States. Data on Windows Phone 7 Marketplace was collecte...

It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Report. This report covers the most popular applications in the Apple App Store for iPad, Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World (worldwide), Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile for Q3 2010 in the United States.The major findings are: The most ...

By Distimo Co-founder Remco van den Elzen. TechCrunch reports that Samsung's application store, Samsung Apps, has seen 10 million downloads in Europe since its launch in September 2009. Apple on the other hand reached 1 billion downloads in nine months and 1.5 billion in one year. Initially, Samsung Apps was only available in a number of European and Asian count...

Every month, we publish a report that highlights trends in the mobile app store market. This latest  report covers the Apple App Store for iPad, the Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World (worldwide), Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile for July 2010 in the United States. The major findings are: T...