Dive summary:
- Gartner Research's industry projections for 2013 have mobile app revenues reaching an all time high at over $25 billion.
- There are well over 700,000 Android and iOS apps on the market today and consumers spend on average at least two hours a day using mobile apps.
- Apple and Google Inc are running equal in terms of smartphone app catalog and usage, but Apple still earns more revenue over Google by nearly three to one.
From the article:
"Since 2011, mobile consumers have nearly doubled the time they spend with their downloaded apps across all platforms."