ABI Insight

App Store Market: The Land of Milk and Honey or Cutthroat Alley?

Authors: Jake Saunders, Vice President of Forecasting
Bhavya Khanna, Research Analyst, Wireless

Published: 02 Feb 2010

Mobile applications stores have become the hot topic in the mobile cellular industry. As of September 2009, more than thirty mobile application storefronts existed. The majority of these are OEM vendor application stores, but carrier-branded portals, third-party Websites, and mobile OS vendors are also joining the fray. Who will eventually climb to the top?

The full text of this Insight is available to subscribers of the Mobile Operator Strategies Research Service and the Smartphones & Mobile Devices Research Service.

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