>The latest report from market research firm Gartner suggests that mobile apps are big business, and that business should only grow in the next few years. According to Gartner’s numbers, Apple completely owns this market, grabbing almost every one of the 4.2 billion dollars spent on mobile apps in 2009.
Gartner’s predictions for 2010 are 4.5 billion apps sold, for a total of $6.8 billion in revenue. If Apple can merely maintain its current rate of about a quarter billion app sales per month, it stands to be responsible for 3 billion apps sales—67 percent—good for $4.5 billion in revenue. Apple’s cut would be $1.35 billion, with developers taking the remainder.
However, as Apple gains more users from sales of new iPhone models and possibly from an expected tablet, Apple could get an even larger share of the mobile app market.
67% in 2010?! lol and these guys get paid millions…
Apple will maintain at least 80-85% share.
WHERE IS THE COMPETITION??
Steve Jobs wasn’t kidding when he released the iPhone in 2007 and said that they were at least 2 years ahead of the competition.
Roll on Jan 27th when the Apple mobile computing wavefront is going to get a whole lot bigger…
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