Top Mobile App Stores
Of late, the mobile industry has been booming offering endless possibilities to its users and a mobile store is the hub which has millions of applications catering to the consumer needs. Each mobile store is specific and exclusive to its mobile OS platform. Apple is the pioneer with their App store which still reigns the market followed closely by Google Android’s Market. Right from productivity tools, messaging and business apps, the stores engage the users with movies, music, games and so on. As per the analysis of Dutch apps analysis firm Distimo, during each day of December 2010 top 300 free applications in different app stores generated 3 million downloads. If that’s not the enough data to surprise you keep reading for more analysis and highlights of top mobile apps stores.
iPhone App Store ( Apple )
The App Store, by far is the biggest mobile store with 350,000 applications and counting. Despite controversies, Apple is far ahead of their competitors with applications that cover almost every category from business, entertainment, games to cooking, leisure and more. Apps for Times, CNN, Playboy and games like Pocket God, Angry Bird are some of the hottest selling ones. Apple App store saw highest growth in business applications at 186% compared to last year. This indicated the iPhone’s increasing popularity as productivity tool. iPad applications are now on the rise and some quality ones are available at prices as low as $1.
Highest Ranked Free Applications In Apple App Store
Android Market ( Google )
Catching up fast with the App Store is Android’s market. With almost every other mobile manufacturer opting for an Android OS, it is no wonder they have already touched the 130,000 applications mark within a short time. Compared to Apple, Market apps have a slew of free ones besides the paid ones being amateurish at times. Fruit Ninja, Double Twist player, VLC remote, live wallpapers are some of their highlights. As the number of applications increase, average price of apps decreases. Though that’s not the case with Android Market as it saw increase of 1% in average price of apps from last January 2010 inspite of heavy growth which is quite an exception compared to the other app stores. Market interface changes according to the mobile manufacturer and a new online version has also been launched recently.
Highest Ranked Free Applications In Google Android Market
Windows Mobile Store (Microsoft)
A load of users still love the Windows Mobile OS for their phones purely because of its huge availability of free applications from total 11,500+ apps to download from. With Win Mob 7 launched, the patronage has just increased and no other platform has so much free applications to offer. Productivity tools, social networking apps, business related are all plenty but games are something that is not the stronghold of windows mobile OS. Yet, with the new version launched, one can expect more.
Highest Ranked Free Applications In Windows Mobile Store
Blackberry App World
Business is the trademark support given by all Blackberry devices. They have more than 18000 apps in their app store resulted from the triple digit growth since last year. Doing office work on the go is a task done with much ease while using their apps. Exclusive Blackberry messenger, Swiss phone book, timr, automotive pocket guide are some popular ones while you can’t expect any games here! Some business apps are quite expensive but worth the shot as nothing can satisfy a professional’s needs like Blackberry App World.
Highest Ranked Free Applications In Blackberry App World
Nokia Ovi store
With a huge number of Nokia users, OVi store was a late launch yet it caught up by launching facebook, opera, twitter, news apps and some notable games like NFS Shift, POP Forgotten Sands on the mobile platform. Ovi store contains more than 25000 apps. In terms of availability, they are less but slowly building up and Symbian OS is a bit slowdown compared to the top players for running quality apps. We guess, Nokia will improvise it even better in the upcoming days.
Highest Ranked Free Applications In Nokia Ovi Store
Some More Charts About App Stores
Below chart shows total number of applications across the stores. Apple and Android are clear winners here with Nokia Ovi and Blackberry app world getting more apps.
The chart about price distribution across all the app stores shows below facts.
- 27% increase in the number of apps in price range of $1.00 – $1.99, which is highest increment in all the price ranges.
- In the price range above $2, there is decrease in number of apps comparing to January 2010.
Over the last year, Nokia Ovi store has a highest application store growth at 899%. But it’s doubtful that, the same growth will be seen next year.
iPhone app store and Android market showing steady growth while Blackberry is little stagnant.
Let us know which is your favorite mobile platform and what is the ease and availability of apps in the respective app store.
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