Distimo, the app store market tracking service, continues to reveal the importance of the freemium model. Free app downloads have grown 34 percent since 2010 in contrast to paid app downloads which grew by 7 percent. In the past the firm also reported a 10x growth in freemium revenue from top releases on the App Stor. More after the jump.
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Have you ever seen a DJ playing a set while walking down the street? I haven’t. But the wonders of modern technology continue to astound us by taking impossible (and maybe even unnecessary) scenarios and translating them to reality. Hence the adaptation of Turntable.fm, the social music service that digitizes DJing, to an iPhone app — the exact scientific breakthrough we need to move forward in the field of mobile party-starting.
Financial Times called an end-around play to dodge the Apple App Store, releasing a Web app that brings its content to several smartphones and tablets, including the iPad, with one login and one subscription payment for users.
The result is Fruit Blast 2.0 – with all-new graphics, new controls, new animations, a connection to Apple’s Game Center, and a host of new features and fun. “This whole process has been an amazing experience for my son Parker and I,” said Mark Lewis. “It’s a real-world opportunity to teach him about following your dreams, learning from your mistakes, and not giving up on success.”
Google will soon be launching Google TV Market, a market place for apps targeting Google TV, according to Ashish Arora, Vice President and General Manager at Logitech. In this present role at Logitech, Arora’s job is to oversee Google’s TV products for Logitech and ensure that Logitech products are compatible with Google’s offerings.
Apple announced Tuesday that it extended the subscription option it launched with The Daily, News Corp.’s recently launched iPad-only newspaper, to all publishers of content-based apps available via its App Store.
Publishers can set the price and the length of subscription, and Apple will keep a 30 percent share of fees from new subscribers it directs to the app, while 100 percent of fees from customers who access the app via other sources — Web sites, existing print subscriptions, etc. — will be kept by them.
App Store users can review and manage all subscriptions via their personal account pages, including canceling automatic renewal of subscriptions. Use of subscriber information will be dictated by each publisher’s privacy policy.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs said:
Our philosophy is simple — when Apple brings a new subscriber to the app, Apple earns a 30 percent share; when the publisher brings an existing or new subscriber to the app, the publisher keeps 100 percent and Apple earns nothing. All we require is that if a publisher is making a subscription offer outside of the app, the same (or better) offer be made inside the app, so that customers can easily subscribe with one click right in the app. We believe this innovative subscription service will provide publishers with a brand-new opportunity to expand digital access to their content onto the iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone, delighting both new and existing subscribers.
According to Gartner, the global mobile app store downloads are estimated to reach 17.7 billion downloads in 2011, representing a 117 percent increase from 8.2 billion downloads in 2010. Gartner further predicts that by the end of 2014, as many as 185 billion apps would have been downloaded from mobile app stores – ever since the first mobile app store was launched in July 2008.
There’s no doubt that the whole social internet community revolves around Facebook. Let me exaggerate a bit here but I everybody in the online world seems to want get on board Facebook. Even the iTunes Apps Store is now on Facebook, which is next?
Alright, lets go back to business. Like I said, the iTunes App Store now has its own Facebook page. It was developed and powered by a company called Vitrue. And it basically puts the Apps Store inside Facebook allowing you to search apps, share cool apps with friends or to simply look out for the hottest apps that you will most likely install on your iPhone. Read more
