Mobile Application Development Then And Now

By Author: Esabel Mathew
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It's difficult to realize that just 4 years ago, there were just a few cents of mobile applications in total. Apple's Application Store is about three and a half years old now. Doing some very rough math, more than 250,000 applications have been developed p.a. Isn't this absolutely mind-blowing and almost impossible to truly wrap your head around? Yes it is. Now if we see the journey of mobile application, we can realize the remarkable growth in the particular market. Have a look on this:

Mobile Application Industry Overview

The future is certainly bright for the mobile application industry and individual mobile application developers. At the rate that the mobile app development industry is growing, some mobile application “experts” and mobile application developers feel this can be one of the most profitable and booming industries in the technological marketplace.

• Worldwide mobile application store downloads reached 17.7 billion downloads in 2011, a 117 percent increase from 8.2 billion downloads in 2010. By the end of 2014, Gartner forecasts that over 185 billion applications would have been ...
... downloaded from online portals, counting from the first launch in July 2008.

• Worldwide mobile application store revenue surpassed $15.1 billion in 2011, both from end users buying applications and applications themselves generating advertising revenue for their developers. This is a 190 percent increase from 2010 revenue of $5.2 billion.

To conclude, Mobile Application Development growth focuses on different parameters like applications demand in market, technological support and most importantly new technological boom which will overcome the application demand.

As scores of mobile applications are submitted to various mobile application marketplaces every day, one can only imagine how many applications are similar to each other. This is leading to evolution of a highly competitive marketplace. Initially, the competition was limited to exploring different industry verticals and domains. Soon, the job market was flooded with requirements of mobile application developers and subject matter experts to support domain-specific application development. For instance, trained doctors are being hired in IT industry to help in developing healthcare apps that could serve hospitals, caregivers, and patients. The availability of multiple open-source development kits like Google’s android, has resulted in the rise of individual freelance developers who are giving established software companies, a run for their money. Also, the launch of so many similar mobile operating systems has prompted the mobile application developers to the improve quality of their applications and explore innovative techniques to gain foothold in this multi-billion dollar industry.

Esabel Mathew is passionate about writing. She used to write on various topics like educational, technological and health etc. She has recently written on the topic Mobile Application Development and iPhone Application Development