Analyst: App Market Will Explode by 2014 [OBVIOUS NUMBERS]
Research group IDC is predicting that application downloads will increase from the 10.9 billion we’ve seen downloaded worldwide this year (across all platforms) to 76.9 billion in 2014. It’s in line with predictions of overall smartphone market share taking over feature phones by the same period of time. They also expect revenue from these applications to surpass $35 billion dollars.
If you don’t remember, Juniper’s revenue figure was quite similar ($32 billion in 2015), but fell way short of what IDC is claiming in terms of overall downloads: just 25 billion in 2015.
IDC’s numbers factored in the advent of apps beyond just mobile phones, though: televisions, cars, tablets, microwaves, home phones: you name it, people will soon be downloading apps on it. Analyst Scott Ellison of the group uses the word “appify” to describe how more developers would find a way to link everything you do in your life to an app. (The internet connected scale definitely comes to mind, here, as well as OnStar’s app for monitoring your vehicle.) [via IDC]