I worked on a J2ME game back in 2003, and back then there was talk of the mobile software market being the next big thing.

Since then, with depressing regularity, there has been a constant claim that we're about to enter a new world of downloadable applications. So far it hasn't happened, and I'm sceptical that it will in 2010.

Just as article comes in, another article appears, Must be Hot.

Demand for mobile developers will grow over the next years

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17.03.2010
Global Mobile Applications market will explode over the next years, new research study suggests. A big success of iPhone and Apple App. Store has created a new industry and spawned many imitators. A recent study taken for the world's second online application store Getjar indicates that the market is projected to grow to $17.5bn during the next two years.

The study claimed downloads would climb from $7bn last year to $50bn by 2012 - a 92% year-on-year increase.

It found there had been a gold rush with the number of app stores rising from four before 2008 to 48 today. With the Apple on the lead there were other rising stores. Google's Android Marketplace, for instance, brough more than 30,000 apps made for smartphones

Kind of Repeatitive,Turning ReVerb Down.

at last.... good Insight into broad scope of story, as story marketed. Explosion of 2X on Mobile Aps ?Stories, in One Hour, Is Tip of Iceberg, Soon Writers will be Forced to Use, Hands, Feet & Nostrils holding keyboard pencils, to get articles Out Fast Enough.In Fact Theres Ap for that.

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Ap often is mere few hundred bytes. So for Dollar, being that 3/4 are as well writtten'd as any widget, gobb, gobble, gobblers abound.

EveryWhere.

I've downloaded hundreds of apps onto my iPhone and my son has downloaded even more onto his iPod touch.

Average price? As close as makes no difference, zero dollars each.

Free apps rule.

There's only a very few that we've actually paid for.