There are two quite interesting new report on the development of the mobile industry. Both reports are not directly provide good news for local developers, especially developers of gaming applications. The first report published by Flurry, a mobile enterprise analytics. Flurry study results by showing that for the first time the use of mobile applications has exceeded the use of the web for daily consumption. The average amount of consumption of mobile applications in June 2011 reached 81 minutes per day - exceeding the average consumption of web only reached 74 minutes.
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The most dominant mobile applications used within the period above it is a game, then followed by social networking applications. Amount of usage of mobile applications is also always increasing in the past year.
Although these statistics show the behavior of consumers in the United States, but the same thing may be happening also in Indonesia, along with the burgeoning sales of smartphones and tablet computers this year.
The second report published by Distimo, app store analytics firm that regularly publish reports about the development of mobile application store. The report shows a significant increase in the number of downloads for iPhone application from Asia during the last six months in the Apple App Store.China has even become the second largest market after the United States.
Category most downloaded application that also was the game, even numbers far above many other categories. Similar things happened in the Nokia Ovi Store which was recently released statisiknya. Ovi Store attracts more than 5 million downloads a day and the game became the most downloaded categories for paid applications.
Both the above reports and statistics showing an increase in demand for the mobile application from the consumer side, especially against the game.This, coupled with other factors such as improvement of infrastructure quality, falling prices of smartphones, and the competing price of data services, create business opportunities for local developers are increasingly open.
In addition to good product development, determining the success of mobile applications is in access to mobile device users. During this time, mobile applications can only be successful in the market through cooperation with telecom operators, while operators usually require application of a really nice and have a chance to boost sales of its products. However, mobile applications, especially games, now have an alternative distribution channel with huge potential.
Although not yet reached such a fantastic game Angry Birds which reached a total of 1 million downloads per day, but the achievements of local developers who have achieved anything to be proud of. For example, games of Agate Fatburner Urban Studio managed to reach 100,000 downloads within 3.5 months in the Nokia Ovi Store. In addition, the game Don Gravity of Nightspade even managed to reach 50,000 downloads in three weeks on the App Store.
