Android generated less than $550m in revenues for Google between 2008 and the end of 2011, if figures provided by the search giant as part of a settlement offer with Oracle ahead of an expected patent and copyright infringement trial are an accurate guide. via Guardian.co.uk Für Google sind dies jährlich rund $10 US-Dollar pro Gerät.weiterlesen

iPad users are willing to pay for premium content offered by newspapers and magazines in the Newsstand category. The category launched only six months ago, however more than 70k USD per day is already being made by the top 100 grossing Newsstand applications in the United States. via Distimo.com Fast in epidemischem Ausmaß kriecht eine Distimo-Studieweiterlesen

Smartphone volumes during the quarter rose due to record sales of Apple iPhones. As a result, Apple became the third-largest mobile phone vendor in the world, overtaking LG. Apple also became the world’s top smartphone vendor, with a market share of 23.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, and the top smartphone vendor forweiterlesen

The Apple App store for iPhone generates about four times the revenue that is generated in the Google Android Market. […] Half of the revenue of the 200 top grossing apps in the Apple App Store for iPhone is now generated by freemium apps. This proportion is even higher in the Google Android Market whereweiterlesen

Anecdotally, developers consistently tell us that they make more money on iOS, about three to four times as much. To be sure, we pulled a sample of in-app purchase data from a set of top apps with versions on both iOS and Android, comprising of several million daily active users (DAUs). Running the numbers, weweiterlesen

via NetMarketShare Mobile Safari was up by 6.58 points last month to 62.17 points. The biggest single loser was the Android browser, dropping 2.91 points to 13.12 percent. Symbian, BlackBerry and Opera Mini also registered falls, down 2.15 points to 2.55 percent, 0.64 points to 2.04 percent, and 0.27 points to 18.65 percent, respectively. via Ars Technicaweiterlesen

via Gartner.com Gartner zeigt einmal mehr, das RIM und Symbian Anteile verlieren, die iOS und Android auflesen. Googles OS greift dabei quantitativ erheblich tiefer in den Topf und legt um mehr als das Doppelte in puncto Marktanteil für die „Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users“ von Q2/2010 bis Q2/2011 zu. Das iPhone-OS (ohne Berücksichtigung von iPadweiterlesen

‚Inklusivvolumen‘ – das hässliche Wort einer ganzen Generation. Unserer Generation! Bis uns die Kinder unserer Kinder jedoch auslachen, über welche Tarif-Details wir uns im rückständigen Jahr 2011 geärgert haben, wird um die Beschränkungen herum gearbeitet. Wer in diesen Sommertagen durch seinen Urlaub erhöhte UMTS-Nutzung feststellt, beziehungsweise mit kleinen Datenhäppchen im Ausland jongliert, lässt DataMan Proweiterlesen