Markus Pohl

Company: research2guidance.com

mp@research2guidance.com

Guest post by research2guidance - 2011 already showed significant growth for the mHealth app market. In 2012 the market size will nearly double. The application market for mobile healthcare will reach US$ 1.3 billion in 2012 – up from US$ 718 million in 2011. Despite this substantial growth, the mHealth market is still in an embryonic state – especially in co...

Guest post by research2guidance - 2011 was the first year of substantial business in the market for mobile health services delivered via smartphone applications. Since our first mHealth report was published last year, the growth in this market has greatly accelerated. The main drivers for this growth have been the increase in the smartphone user base on the demand ...

Guest post by research2guidance - The development service market today is almost 3 times of the size of the application download market. The market for mobile application development services, including application creation, management, distribution and extension services, has reached $US 20.5 billion in 2011. App development services became a mass market that has ...

Guest post by research2guidance The market for app stores is shifting – as the market for general, first-tier app stores is solidifying, niche stores are increasing, offering customers and publishers new opportunities. These findings are taken from the new market research report “Smartphone App Market Monitor Vol.4”. Just like first-tier stores, niche stores ...

With 3.49 billion total downloads as of September 2011, the US is still the largest market, holding more than 50% of the total app download market share, but not the most active market and not the one with the highest potential. Download our free Android Market Insights Vol. 7. The United States remains one of the largest markets, both in terms of user base an...

Just by choosing the less competitive and more price-intensive category, developers can lift their potential revenue by 900% above average. These finding are part of our latest free monthly “Android Market Insights”. Download it here. At the end of August 2011 the average application had generated nearly $2,500 since it has been published. The total average cum...

The “average app” has a better chance to generate downloads on “non-hyped” platforms. These findings are taken from our new Smartphone App Market Monitor V.3. Despite all the hype around the major platforms Android and iOS, publishers are still overlooking the hidden potentials of the niche players.  The Q2 2011 results of our smartphone application monitoring r...

Apple’s and Android’s race in smart device market One of the heat topics these days are the results of smartphone shipments. Apple became the top-selling device manufacturer with its record-breaking 20.3 million device shipments during the second quarter of 2011, whereas Android owns 48% of market as a largest mobile operating system provider. For most starting ...

Average best-selling application prices vary greatly in different stores One of the basic questions every developer asks themselves before publishing an application is whether to charge for download, or to monetize the app another way. The decision to set a price for a download, however, does not end here. Developers must understand the market and the potential cus...

Selling The Spades For The App Gold Diggers. How can mobile app developers take advantage of the US$100 billion app development market? The market for mobile app development services is already twice as big as the app download market, and is still growing. For application developers this represents a unique opportunity to generate business, not by developing th...