Market for Mobile Apps will grow 10-fold, predicts...mobile App supplier

Wednesday, March 17. 2010

Market for Mobile Apps will grow 10-fold, predicts...mobile App supplier

SAN FRANCISCO — A study released on Wednesday indicated that the market for mobile device software programs should rocket to 17.5 billion dollars (US) within three years.

Downloads of mobile applications to handsets will leap from slightly more than seven billion in 2009 to nearly 50 billion in 2012, according to the independent study commissioned by GetJar, the world's second largest app store.

"It is easy to see how mobile apps will eclipse the traditional desktop Internet," GetJar chief executive Ilja Laurs told AFP.

"It makes perfect sense that mobile devices will kill the desktop."

Ah, another piece of cautiously optimistic research work from Planet Mobile

For the record, a rule of thumb we have found to be pretty reliable over 10 years of watching the mobile industry is to halve the prediction and double the time it takes. $25bn by 2014? I could live with that......

Posted by Alan Patrick in Mobile Web 2.0 & Multimedia at 22:17 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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