Spending your entire salary on a new iPhone always comes with extra expenses as you will need more cash to get a decent data package, music, videos and all the new apps. Most of the cost goes to buying paid apps. And a latest research suggests that in 2012, people around the world have spent a total of $8 billion dollars just to buy smartphone apps.
According to Research2Guidance, “The market for paid application downloads has reached US$ 8 billion in 2012 in the top 5 app platforms,” including Apple App Store, Google Play, BlackBerry App World, Nokia Ovi Store and Windows Phone Store. That is a 27% jump compared to stats in 2011.
It is not a surprise to see this kind of an improvement considering how the main app platforms like Google Play and Apple App Store are growing their database at super-speed with millions of new applications. And this also proves how fast mobile technology grows every year.
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Roshan Jerad Perera