Market research firm Gartner predicts that by 2014 the global mobile application download market will reach 58 billion U.S. dollars.
Last year, the global applications for mobile users to pay a total of 52 billion U.S. dollars. Gartner expects mobile application downloads will reach 17.7 billion times, is 82 billion in 2010, more than double. In addition, as at the end of 2014, users around the world since 2008, the mobile application downloads will total more than 185 billion times.
Gartner noted that, while the average application downloads the user to maintain stability, but the popularity of tablet PCs will lead to more downloads. In addition, the rapid growth of mobile applications market, thanks in part to Nokia, RIM and other companies have introduced similar to Apple's App Store app store.
Mobile applications revenue not only from paid downloads, but also from application of the ads. Gartner predicts 2011 application download free mobile applications downloads will account for 81% of the total. And as people increasingly the new payment system, pay the amount of downloads will increase.