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CommentsAs 2009 nears its end, it is worth noting that the year was dominated by Apple with their iPhone product gaining steam and popularity not only in the United States, but all over the world. The iPhone has revolutionized the mobile telecom industry by combining another popular gadget, the iPod, with several mobile features that resulted in a very sleek and all-in-one gadget.
However, with the New Year coming and with the continuously growing popularity of the brand, iPhone application pioneers should buckle up as they face greater competition come 2010. As the number of iPhone Apps and their manufacturers multiply over the next year, companies will find it twice as hard to gain profit even for the most successful ones that are now currently in the market.
Though these are just speculations and projections for the coming year, research firm IDC predicts that the number of Apple iPhone apps available to consumers will triple over the next year to more than 300,000. In a report released last September entitled “Forecasting the U.S. Mobile App Gold Rush,” Yankee Group Research estimated that the mobile app industry will expand more than tenfold to $4.2 billion by 2013.
Being a very lucrative industry, major brands and more established players will most certainly take advantage of this relatively new market and slowly begin moving in. This will leave pioneering developers who ultimately grossed millions for individual applications to fight in order to maintain attention and market share.
Tapulous remains the leading developer of iPhone apps for 2009. The company, funded by several high profile investors from the Silicon Valley, is the developer behind the hit Tap Tap Revenge series and other highly popular tap applications that have combined to sell millions of dollars from more than 15,000,000 consumers. Immediately after its release, Tap Tap Revenge 3 was atop the app bestsellers’ list on the iTunes Store for 20 days.
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