Mobile platforms have become a gold mine for developers

Smartphones and communicators of various kinds have become a real residential developers, who receive income from produced for these applications devices.

This is shown by projections, provided analyst firm Screen Digest. According to published figures, revenues from mobile applications to make the end of 2013. € 100 billion (or $ 143.5 billion). A substantial portion of the pie will get Apple.

$ 12.3 billion will be derived from the rich media content services offering mobile TV, videos, music and games, and this is 50% more than in 2009. In particular, the profits of mobile music services like Spotify will increase by 25% until 2013 (to $ 4.5 billion), even though the reduction in sales of ringtones. And revenues from mobile games will be equal to approximately $ 4 billion at the end of 2013.

At the moment, the market for mobile applications is dominated by Apple with its online store App Store. But over time, competitors of the company will also begin to actively create mobile devices that are supported by their own stores. For example, the communicators based on Google Android. In the future, developers will have a choice with whom to collaborate. In addition to Apple, the market will take Google, Nokia, Samsung, Microsoft, Vodafone, RIM, Palm and Orange. Under assumptions of analysts, the most popular will be those companies which will offer developers the best of tools for creating applications for their platforms.