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According to the study, commissioned by Wireless Intelligence, the research arm of the GSMA, mobile apps are responsible for 667 minutes of use per user each month, almost as much as messaging (671 minutes), and far more than voice (531 minutes) and web browsing (422 minutes).

Wow.

The research also noted differences between the major smartphone platforms. iPhone and Android device owners use an average of 15 different apps per month, whereas the number is eight for BlackBerry and Symbian OS. iTunes and Android Market Place have a monthly reach of 95  percent of their user bases, whereas Blackberry App World reaches 50 percent of Blackberry users, and Nokia Ovi store only 26 percent of Symbian users.

Sounds right to me.

Overall smartphone usage dropped at weekends but generically averaged more than 70 minutes per day with apps capturing more face time than any other activity at weekends.

The findings showed that SMS usage was higher in the mornings than voice and usage of social networking apps built up through the day and peaked at 9-10pm.

Good data.

http://www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com/apps/article/apps-use-second-only-to-mobile-messaging

Nokia, our platform is burning.

Good thing he said it, many don’t take it seriously when I do.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-rallies-troops-in-brutally-honest-burnin/#comments

Somente as vendas de smartphones cresceram 72,1% no ano passado, representando 19% dos dispositivos móveis comercializados no período.

Também parece ser de 19% a participação deles no mercado brasileiro.

A plataforma Symbian, pertencente à Nokia, conserva o primeiro lugar no ranking de sistemas, mas sua participação de mercado recuou de 46,9% em 2009 para 37,6% em 2010, embora o volume de aparelhos com o sistema tenha aumentado de 80,8 milhões para 111,5 milhões, no período.

Em 2009, o mesmo Gartner previu que a Nokia teria 39% do mercado em 2012.

O BlackBerry, da RIM, manteve o terceiro lugar no segmento, presente em 16% dos celulares vendidos no ano passado (47,4 milhões), embora sua participação tenha diminuído em relação aos 19,9% (34,3 milhões de unidades) verificados em 2009.

Justo.

Em 2010, smartphones vendidos com o sistema Android registraram um salto de 888% no mundo, em relação a 2009, o que fez sua participação de mercado crescer de 3% em 2009, com 6,8 milhões de aparelhos, para 22,7% no ano passado, com 67,2 milhões de unidades.

Eles previram 14,5% em 2012.

E ainda tem quem confie mais nos institutos de pesquisa do que nos especialistas.

http://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2011/02/vendas-de-celulares-crescem-318-no-mundo-em-2010-informa-gartner1.html

http://www.mobileappsshowdown.com/

http://www.appcircus.com/

[João Paulo Bruder, analista de mercado de telecomunicações da IDC] disse que atualmente cerca de 40% das médias e grandes empresas brasileiras já contam com alguma utilização de aplicativos móveis mais robustos.

De jeito nenhum.

http://www.tiinside.com.br/9/2010/guerra-de-aplicativos/ti/204351/revista.aspx

He likens Android’s success to that of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, along with the flaws and challenges of that model.

Actually it is a different story, but the fact that both are distributed by multiple vendors put them together.

He also said the platform isn’t always as consistent as it needs to be.

He is probably referring to the vendor UIs, which I continue to view as a no-issue.

At the end of the interview, Wozniak also comments on Nokia, saying that the Finnish company struggles with an image problem and calling its brand that of a “previous generation”.

Big time agreed.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/18/woz-apple-almost-launched-a-phone-in-2004-android-will-win-the-race/

• app1
• Aorta
• beegames
• Conception
• FingerTips
• LBS Local
• Livetouch
• mob376
• M1ND
• MC1
• Mowa
• MTM Tecnologia
• Navita
• Pinuts Studios
• Prime Systems
• Runze
• Spring Wireless
• Squadra
• Tlantic
• Weka

Android is now eating away at Nokia’s top spot among smartphone OS vendors worldwide, where Nokia still retains a 33% share compared with Android’s quarter of the market.

Nokia continues to dive deeper.

For Apple, there is some good news – it has now jumped ahead of Blackberry maker RIM with a 26.2% market share in the U.S. compared with RIM’s 24.2%. Worldwide, Apple reached 17% share, beating RIM’s 15%.

Although RIM is successful among customers in many markets, it is specially targeted at enterprises, where both Android and iOS have very little share.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/android_becomes_top_mobile_operating_system_in_us_number_two_worldwide.php

So, as a developer, if you create your application in Qt, you will be able to easily deploy it to Nokia devices on both Symbian and MeeGo platforms.

In addition to focusing on Qt for application development, Nokia announced its intent to support HTML5 for development of Web content and applications for both Symbian and MeeGo platforms.

I continue to think Nokia won’t matter going forward, along with Palm.

http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/nokia-developer-news/2010/10/21/nokia-focusing-on-qt

Note that they will only keep Java ME in Symbian for compatibility, and not support it in MeeGo.

http://www.forum.nokia.com/Develop/Qt/