Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 14:31 PM

SAN FRANCISCO - ABI research firm predicts that 2010 represents a significant year for mobile applications. Along with smart phones are increasingly hard sell, the more people who download mobile applications.
Quoted by Cellular News, Tuesday (6/4/2010), ABI research predicts there will be at least six billion download mobile applications this year. This figure increased from predictions in the year 2009 which reached 2.4 billion downloads.
The widespread adoption of smartphones in the world able to increase sales to 20 percent in 2009, coupled with a growing number of mobile application store that appears.
Even earlier this year, at least according to ABI will have two mobile phone platforms that will further enhance the mobile application, Samsung Bada OS and Microsoft Windows Phone 7. Both the OS will be complemented by access to the store so that adds increased application download mobile applications.
"IPhone still will lead the market with a number of application platforms, applications and databases to reach 125,000 additional local content. While other OS still chase, and Android is the OS of the most rapidly growing," says ABI Research Bhavya Khanna party.
According to Khanna, at least there will be 30,000 applications that can be downloaded, while the 800 million download Android applications will visit this year.
But unfortunately, the increasing number of downloads of this application it is not accompanied by increased revenue of the mobile app. ABI predicts, the future of mobile applications will be free, or at least only make mobile advertising as a service substitution. Even now, handset manufacturers like Nokia, Motorola and Android has started membundle handset with mobile applications like social networking, instant messaging and GPS services.
"Competition is increasingly heating up will make the application developers will inevitably have to provide low-cost applications, and even likely for free. This is to make their application at the top position most users," said vice president of analyst firm Forecasting, Jake Saunders.