Monday, December 9, 2013

Mobile Apps and Applications: Apps development market and trends


A mobile application (or mobile app) is a software application designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile devices. They are usually available through application distribution platforms, which are typically operated by the owner of the mobile operating system, such as the Apple App Store, Google Play, Windows Phone Store, and BlackBerry App World.

By the end of the 2013 downloads of applications through smartphones will reach 56 billion, 89% will correspond to Android, 34% iOS, 4% Windows Phone and 3% Blackberry iOS.  Referring to tablets, it is forecast 14 billion downloads, which 75% will be from iPad, 21% from Android, 2% from Amazon Kindle and 2% from Windows device.

Based on these estimates, in the period 2012-2017 the number of users that use mobile applications will grow at an annual rate of the 29.8%.

According to an analysis by TCS, leading companies have on average 25% of mobile applications designed exclusively for tablets. 

In the region of Latin America, during the 2012, 28% of the companies had mobile applications available for smart phones and tablets. Taking into account the growth that is taking the mobile applications market, it will grow more than 20% for 2015, with more than one third (34%) of all the applications developed to be used in both devices.

Android and iOS will continue heading as operating systems of reference while Windows and BlackBerry will fight to have a space in the competition.

Source: HUNT Mobile

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