The experts say, the market of smartphones applications would grow by more than either timesignificantly in the next three years. As per predictions, The market could grow as much as over 807 percent, to almost $15.65 billion.
According to a recent report of Research2 Guidance, 2010, last year’s revenue has reached about $1.94 billion. They haves predicted about the future of the market of smart phones on a which is expected to see a major push into smart phones around the world. They claim that the audience is on the way of tripling this year, reaching about 300 million while it may result in 970 million smart phones being in use by 2013.
If we think about two leading smart phones like Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry, they enjoyed the rapidest sales growth among all smartphones manufacturers. BlackBerry is currently the smartphone to beat. The meteoric rise of Apple’s iPhone spurs the increase of Blackberry’s market share. In 2007, iPhone growth sat 0.3%, and in 2009, they were at 2%, while RIM went from 1% to 3% in the same period. Starting with only 500 apps since July 2008, iPhone now have over 150,000 applications. Apple gained 6.2 percentage points of market share while Google won 3.5 percentage points of the market share, although Android is new comer into the market just in a year and a half old.
BlackBerry App World and Windows Marketplace have had success hugely in last two years. Analysts expect, Apple may show us continued sales growth this year, too, especially if the company introduces a new version of its iPhone operating system at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, 2010.
The more new app development opportunities emerge, the more various smartphones become popular year by year. So it is expected, smartphones will continue to be used to capitalize its buttoned-down image and win the dead hearts and vacant minds of the masses.
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