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Global mobile app market to hit $35 billion in 2014, says IDC

By | December 13, 2010, 5:41am PST

Summary: IDC projects that the number of mobile apps downloaded worldwide will grow from 10.9 billion in 2010 to 76.9 billion in 2014. That growth will equate to $35 billion in revenue in 2014.

International Data Corp. projects that the number of mobile apps downloaded worldwide will grow from 10.9 billion in 2010 to 76.9 billion in 2014. That growth will equate to $35 billion in revenue in 2014.

In its forecast, IDC said that mobile apps are moving from phones to tablets to TVs and other devices in the home.

IDC said there will be an increasing move toward appification as software interacts better with users. In other words, mobile apps will extend into every aspect of our personal and business lives, argues IDC.

That final point is worth pondering. Will everything really be appified or is IDC just trying to accelerate the app bandwagon?

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  • I agree with what IDC says..!!
    Today is the age of iPad and tablets but mobile computing is the future of modern business.
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    Kh.Ozman
    13th Dec 2010
  • I believe IDC is basically correct ...
    .... apps will be everywhere, from mobile phones to tablets, to touch PCs (including laptops and desktops); set top boxes, consoles, many other consumer devices, tables, walls, countertops, etc. Complex PC software will continue to be with us for personal productivity, and to provide services for the myriad of consumption devices which will be using apps.

    So we are now seeing computing shifting back to a new type of client / server paradigm, resulting in the expansion of computing models, including thin client browser apps, apps (which are a lightweight client / services computing model), and connected, complex PC applications (which are a heavyweight client / services computing model) - e.g. MS Office, Adobe software, Autocad.
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    P. Douglas
    14th Dec 2010
  • RE: Global mobile app market to hit $35 billion in 2014, says IDC
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