Brands in App Stores

As per a report released today by the mobile analytics firm Distimo, a mobile 91% of the top 100 brands have a presence in atleast one mobile app store. This is huge increased compare to only 51% having a mobile app around 18 months back.

Most brands have free apps and look at the app stores to establish a presence of their brand rather than making money.

The average number of apps per brand is 24! Some of the most active brands are Disney (636 apps) and Sony (285). The 3rd on the list if BMW at 63.



It doesn't come as a surprise that Apple’s App Store is the number one pick. 86% of the top brands have a presence in Apple’s iPhone App Store, 66% are in the Apple iPad App Store, 59% have a presence in the Android Market and a low 26% are in BlackBerry’s App World.

Apple's Latest Stats!

Here is a consolidation of all sales numbers disclosed by Apple in yesterday's event. Some of the number are mind boggling!

iOS devices
(iPhones, iPads & iPod Touches):

• 250 mn devices sold (and NOT shipped) till date
• iPhone 4 makes more than half of total iPhones sold
  

App Store

• 18 bn downloads till date
• Current rate of 1 bn download per month (compare this with the 9 months is took to download the 1st billionth app in April 2009!!)
  
• 500,000 apps out of which 140,000 are made for the iPad
• $3bn has been distributed to 3rd party developers

iPods

• 300 mn iPods sold in 10 years (compare to quarter million cassette players sold by Sony in 30 years)
  
• 45 mn last year itself (July 2010-June 2011)
  
• 20 mn songs on iTunes
• 16 bn downloads

iPhone has 5% of mobile market share world wide - "An Enormous Opportunity" according to Tim Cook.

Siri for iPhone 4S: Your new PA

It was a big disappointment not to see the iPhone 5 launch today and the Wall Street also made this clear. However, the announcement of Siri for iPhone along with a few other features reduces this slightly. This is the name of the app Apple bought for $200 million a couple of years ago.

Siri launches with a long press of the home button, just like Voice Control, but after that the options are huge. Some questions for the demo today makes this interface much awaited in the new iPhone 4S. “Wake me up at 6 a.m." “What time is it in Paris?” “Set my alarm for…” “Find me a great Greek restaurant in Palo Alto.” “Do I have any meetings this Friday at noon?”

One Q & A gives away the deal on what Siri is exactly:
“Siri, who are you?” Siri responds: “I am your humble personal assistant.