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Consumer mobile apps revenues to pass $50 bn by 2016
| 07 февраля 2012 |
A new report from Juniper Research finds that annual revenues from consumer mobile applications will approach $52 billion by 2016 as consumer smartphone adoption accelerates in tandem with the emergence of a mass tablet market.
The report finds that the introduction of operator billing across leading storefronts such as the Android Market and Ovi Store had led to a dramatic rise in revenues. Likewise, the mass deployment of in-app billing options meant that, for many storefronts, post-download revenues had surpassed those of PPD (Pay-Per-Download).While smartphones will continue to comprise the majority of app revenues over the forecast period, the report noted that tablets – which currently account for just 7% of global app revenues – would comprise 25% of such revenues by 2016.
HTML5 heightens publisher D2C opportunity
The report observed that the app store model’s pre-eminence faced the prospect of erosion in the longer term as HTML5 – a markup language which reduces end-user dependence on plug-in app technologies – facilitates the transition to a browser-based environment. Additionally, the closer integration between web-based apps and handsets should mean that the advantage that native apps have is reduced.
This in turn offers great opportunities for content publishers to offer content on-site rather than be reliant on storefront distribution. Nevertheless, as report author Dr Windsor Holden noted, “While we are likely to see some larger media publishers – particularly those dependent on subscription revenues – migrating to a direct-to-consumer model (D2C), this is by no means true for the majority of companies. Most do not possess the scale of traffic to make D2C a viable option: in most cases, the storefront will continue to be the optimal discovery and distribution mechanism.”
Other findings from the report include:
- Most network operator storefronts will struggle to attract developers due to lack of scale
- More than 31 billion apps downloaded to mobile devices in 2011
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