Android to power 58 per cent of this year's smartphone app downloads

March 6th, 2013, 01:11 Posted By: wraggster

Smartphone developers to become 'Android-first' in 2013, but iOS will carry the tablet space.
New ABI Research shows that smartphone app downloads will reach 56 billion this year, and Android is set to account for a 58 per cent lion's share ahead iOS bagging a 33 per cent share. Windows Phone, meanwhile, will secure around four per cent, with BlackBerry at three per cent.
However, with tablet app downloads hitting 14 billion this year, Apple's iPad will be responsible for 75 per cent of the amount. Android – excluding Kindle Fire – will reach 17 per cent, while Amazon's tablet line will secure four per cent, as Windows tablets secure two per cent.
Aapo Markkanen, senior analyst, ABI, said: "Arguably the most pressing issue for Google is how much of this handset momentum will ultimately trickle down to tablets, where Apple is holding the fort remarkably well.
"We would argue that in this context Google will actually benefit from the efforts by Amazon, since the presence of Kindle Fire adds a lot of critical ‘code mass’ to Android’s proposition as a platform for tablet applications. It is worth remembering that Android’s so-called fragmentation problem isn’t only a problem, but that it has a certain upside as well."

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