Netease Technology News January 26, according to foreign media reports, market research firm Gartner said Wednesday that the global mobile application store sales this year will be nearly quadruple to 151 million, mainly affected by Google's Android Market driven.
Apple in mid-2008 when the launch App Store, so as to move the online software store has created a new market, which greatly promoted the sales of smart phones and reshape the way mobile content delivery.
analyst Caroline Nami Lannei Xi (Carolina Milanesi) said: still the world's best-selling app store, but other applications will catch up shop. Its closest competitor is Google's Android and private companies GetJar, which sold software for all platforms and in June last year to reach 1 billion downloads.
as HTC, Motorola, Samsung and other mobile and introduced new phones, Android this year will become the world's most popular smartphone operating system.
Gartner forecast that all 81% of mobile application downloads are free. The company said 5.2 billion dollars App Store in 16% of revenue comes from advertising, and is expected at the end of 2014 the ratio will double to 30%. (Chu Shen)
(This article Source: Netease technology report)
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