Sunday, November 20, 2011

ABI Research estimates that 44 billion mobile applications will be downloaded by 2016.

ABI Research estimates that 44 billion mobile applications will be downloaded within the next five years.

Also a new PwC reports shows that more than half of the 3,282 smartphone owners surveyed use their smartphones for three activities each day: basic communication, accessing news, weather or sports and social network usage. And over the next two years, more than 40 percent of those surveyed expect their activities to increase across 14 different areas, such as travel and healthcare management thanks to apps.



For programmers, it validates the mobile app economy, even as the industry debates the value of platform-specific software as compared to increasing functionality through HTML 5 and the mobile browser.

Source: http://gigaom.com/mobile/why-the-mobile-app-economy-will-keep-growing-quickly/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%3A+Tech%29

Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @ InfocomAnalysis

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