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Mobile Application Storefronts
The Rise and Decline of Mobile’s Hottest Application Distribution Channel
Research Report
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- 57
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- Released
- 2Q 2010
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- RR-MOAPS-10
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Mobile applications for smartphones are the hottest topic in the mobile industry today. Spurred by Apple's storybook success with the App Store -- more than 3 billion iPhone apps downloaded between July 2008 and the present, from a library of more than 150,000 -- a broad variety of industry players from device manufacturers and MNOs to platform vendors and thousands of content developers have scrambled to catch the mobile app store wave. Dozens of mobile app stores have sprung up to sell and distribute mobile applications for smartphones. Yet success in distributing mobile apps is not guaranteed, and the mobile application storefront business model faces formidable challenges.
This study explores those challenges in detail, outlines potential solutions to overcoming them, and describes emerging alternative distribution channels and delivery mechanisms for mobile apps and content. Forecasts include total downloads by smartphone OS and by region, market share percentages of downloads by smartphone OS and by region, retail value of paid apps sold by smartphone OS and by region.
What Questions Does This Report Answer?
- Which smartphone platforms will be successful in 2015?
- Which mobile application storefronts will be successful in 2015?
- How successful will mobile application storefronts be in 2015?
- What are the threats to mobile app stores?
- How can these threats be addressed?
- What are the altermatives to mobile app stores and how viable are they?
- In what regions will app stores be successful? How succesful?
Who Needs This Report?
- Mobile application storefront operators
- Mobile application developers
- Mobile network operators
- Mobile application platform vendors
- Mobile device manufacturers
- Investors
Table of Contents
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Executive Brief
- Executive Brief: Top-Line Forecast
- Executive Brief: Drivers
- Executive Brief: Inhibitors
- Executive Brief: Market Share
- Executive Brief: Summary and Strategic Recommendations
Section 1.
Executive Summary
1.1. Market Opportunity Overview
1.2. Market Drivers
1.2.1. Demand Drivers
1.2.2. Supply Drivers
1.3. Market Barriers
1.3.1. Demand Barriers
1.3.2. Supply Barriers
1.4. Market Trends
1.5. Forecasts
1.5.1. Total Downloads
1.5.2. Total Revenue from Paid Apps
1.5.3. Apple Dominance
Section 2.
Conclusions and Recommendations
2.1. Conclusions
2.1.1. App Stores Will Peak in 2013 and Start to Decline
2.1.2. OEM/Platform Stores Will Dominate the App Store Landscape
2.1.3. Of Those, Apple's App Store Will Dominate
2.1.4. MNO Stores Will Gain Market Presence, Third-Party Stores Will Lose Ground
2.1.5. North American and European Markets Will Dominate
2.1.6. Brands Will Use Dominant Free Apps to Market Themselves
2.1.7. Paid Apps Will Be Domain of Games and Enterprise
2.1.8. Apps for Smartphones Will Dominate
2.2. Recommendations
2.2.1. Change Business Drivers for MNOs and Third-Party App Stores or Fade Away
2.2.2. App Stores Should Build Recommendation Engines
2.2.3. MNOs Concentrate on Standardized APIs, Single Business Deals
2.2.4. MNOs Seek Out Aggregators
2.2.5. Brands Should Aggressively Build Apps as Marketing Tools
2.2.6. Nokia -- Preload Native Clients for Ovi
2.2.7. Android -- Improve the Web Site
2.2.8. BlackBerry App World -- Stay the Course
2.2.9. Microsoft -- Strike Soon or It Is Over
2.2.10. Developers -- Seek Out Current Ways to Overcome Fragmentation, Discoverability
Section 3.
Market Overview
3.1. Applications and Content Defined
3.2. Mobile Application Storefront Ecosystem
3.2.1. Mobile Devices
3.2.2. Mobile OS Platforms Defined
3.2.3. MNO Services
3.2.4. Application Portals and Web Sites
3.2.5. Application Developers
3.2.6. Support
3.2.7. Security
Section 4.
Market Trends and Issues
4.1. Mobile Application Storefront Landscape
4.1.1. Apple
4.1.2. BlackBerry App World
4.1.3. Android Market
4.1.4. Ovi
4.1.5. Windows Marketplace
4.1.6. Palm App Catalog
4.1.7. Bada
4.1.8. China Mobile
4.1.9. TIM Brasil App Store
4.1.10. PocketGear
4.1.11. GetJar
4.1.12. Mobango
4.2. The Mobile OS Battle
4.2.1. Apple
4.2.2. Android
4.2.3. BlackBerry
4.2.4. Symbian
4.2.5. Windows Mobile
4.2.6. Palm
4.2.7. Which Mobile OS Platforms Win?
4.3. Addressing Mobile OS Fragmentation
4.3.1. Middle Layer Developer Platforms
4.3.2. Aggregators
4.3.3. Web Apps
4.4. Addressing Device Fragmentation
4.5. Addressing Application Discovery
4.5.1. Third-Party Reviews Online
4.6. What Are the Business Drivers for App Stores, App Developers?
4.7. App Store Business Models/Revenue Options
4.7.1. Free
4.7.2. Ad-Supported
4.7.3. Ad Networks? Google's and Apple's Focus
4.7.4. Paid
4.7.5. In App Purchasing, Freemium
4.7.6. Paid Versus Free Apps -- Where Will It Go?
4.8. Which App Stores Will Win?
4.8.1. What Type of Apps Will Win?
4.8.2. Apps Migrate Away from Storefronts
4.9. Analytics
4.10. Content Vaults
4.11. ABI Survey Results
Section 5.
Technology Issues
5.1. Mobile OS Platforms
5.1.1. Apple iPhone
5.1.2. BlackBerry
5.1.3. Android
5.1.4. Symbian
5.1.5. Windows Mobile
5.1.6. Mobile Linux
5.1.7. Web OS
5.1.8. Java
5.1.9. BREW
5.2. Transaction/Billing
5.3. Application Installation and Configuration
5.3.1. Over-the-Air (OTA)
5.3.2. PC Side-Loading
5.3.3. Personal Area Network Transfer
Section 6.
Key Industry Players
6.1. AT&T
6.2. Distimo, Flurry
6.3. envIO Networks
6.4. Google
6.5. Handmark
6.6. Intel
6.7. Microsoft
6.8. Mob4Hire
6.9. mPortal
6.10. Qualcomm
6.11. Research in Motion
6.12. Tapulous
6.13. Samsung
6.14. Xtreme Labs
Section 7.
Market Forecasts
7.1. Forecast Methodology
7.2. Revenue Definition
7.3. Market Forecasts
7.3.1. Smartphone Subscribers by Mobile OS Platform
7.3.2. Application Downloads from App Stores by Mobile OS Platform
7.3.3. Application Downloads by Region
7.3.4. Application Downloads by Distribution Channel
7.3.5. Available Applications in App Stores, Paid Versus Free
7.3.6. Revenue Generated by Mobile Paid Apps by Mobile OS Platform
7.3.7. Revenue Generated by Mobile Paid Apps by Region
Section 8.
Company Directory
Section 9.
Acronyms
Scope of Study
Sources and Methodology
Notes
22 Tables
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Application Downloads from App Stores by Mobile OS Platform, World Market, Forecast: 2009 to 2015
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Smartphone Subscribers by Mobile OS Platform, Market Share, World Market, Forecast: 2009 to 2015
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Application Downloads from App Stores, Market Share by Mobile OS Platform, World Market, Forecast: 2009 to 2015
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Application Downloads from App Stores Market Share by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2009 to 2015
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Application Revenue from App Stores, Market Share by Mobile OS Platform, Paid Apps, World Market, Forecast: 2009 to 2015
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Application Revenue from App Stores, Market Share by Region, Paid Apps, World Market, Forecast: 2009 to 2016
4 Charts
- World Market, Forecast: 2009 to 2015 Application Downloads by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2009 to 2015
- World Market, Forecast: 2009 to 2015 Application Revenue by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2009 to 2015
- World Market, Forecast: 2009 to 2015 Smartphone Subscribers by Mobile OS Platform, World Market, Forecast: 2009 to 2015
- World Market, Forecast: 2009 to 2015 Available Applications in App Stores, Paid vs. Free, World Market, Forecast: 2009 to 2015