Mobile App Downloads Generated $4.5 Billion in 2009

This study focuses on mobile applications downloads including delivery through the apple app store, blackberry app world, nokia ovi store, microsoft windows marketplace, palm app catalog, Lg application store, samsung apps, and play now arena.

Rockville, MD, September 10, 2010 --(PR.com)-- MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of MarketsandMarkets’s new report “Global Mobile Application Market (2010-2015)” to their collection of Cell Phones market reports. For more information, visit http://www.marketresearch.com/product/display.asp?ProductID=2763955.

The success of Apple’s Application Store has not only established the salability of mobile applications, but has also shown that the most excellent applications offer the potential to generate large amount of revenues. Several telecom giants have thus begun providing dedicated application stores for their users, according the report, so much so that more than 2 million applications are currently available for communications, games, multimedia, productivity, travel, and utility purposes.

About 6.4 billion (free, paid, and ad-supported) application downloads were made globally in 2009 alone from native (on-deck) and third-party (off-deck) application stores, generating revenues of $4.5 billion in the same year, states the report. Apple, with 2.5 billion downloads, dominated the applications market in 2009. However, new players like Google, Nokia, and RIM are rapidly entering the applications market space, as the increasing uptake and usability of smartphone devices further boosts the mobile applications market. According to MarketsandMarkets, the global mobile applications market is expected to be worth $25.0 billion in 2015, growing at a CAGR of 29.6% from 2010 to 2015.

The report includes native (downloadable) mobile applications (not web-based applications) for mobile devices like smartphones and feature phones (not iPad or tablet PCs). The market segmentation on the basis of store type includes on-deck (operators, mobile device manufacturers, and Operating System (OS) developers managed) and off-deck (independent or third-party managed) stores. The report categorizes the global market for mobile applications on the basis of

Games
Social Networking
Books
Entertainment
Business and Finance
Lifestyle
Productivity
Travel
Navigation
Utilities
Others

The report provides market estimates and forecasts for the global mobile applications markets in North America, Europe, Asia, and Rest of the World (ROW). In addition to market sizing and forecasts, the report also offers a detailed analysis of the market trends, opportunities, and the factors influencing the growth of each segment of the mobile applications market. The report also draws a competitive landscape, analyzing core competencies of major players and strategies adopted to expand their market presence.

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