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​Media tablet apps will generate $8.8 billion in revenue in 2013, compared to the $16.4 billion expected from smartphone apps, according to the latest market study by ABI Research. Of the combined $25 billion applications revenue, 65 percent will come from Apple’s iOS ecosystem, 27 percent from Google’s Android, and the remaining 8 percent from the other mobile device platforms.

According to the latest market study by Portio Research, the mobile apps business has matured. The worldwide apps market generated an impressive $12 billion in 2012, and in total 46 billion apps were downloaded in the year. That is certainly an indication of a market in rapid growth.

Most fitting to share, I believe, is the discussion that took place in the last seminar I attended. It was all about optimal service delivery. One would think that after four generations of mobile communications, optimal service delivery would be a hard and fast goal for service providers to reach; on the contrary, the seminar proved to me that optimal service delivery is not a clear concept.

Expect to see more stories about the apparent winners and losers within the consumer electronics (CE) marketplace in 2013.

Mobile application storefronts had collectively distributed a cumulative total of 81 billion smartphone and media tablet apps -- as of the end of September 2012 -- according to the latest market study from ABI Research.

Organisations are moving beyond the traditional means of connecting with existing and potential customers.

According to the latest market study by ABI Research, the global average app size across all categories was 23 megabytes in September 2012, that's 16 percent more than in March.

Smartphone and media tablet use in the workplace is now growing at an accelerated pace, but it isn't always clear how mobile network service providers will directly benefit from this trend. Recent global market research offers some new insights.