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Yahoo releases State of the App Nation in India

Yahoo releases State of the App Nation in India

Bengaluru, Mar 23 (UNI) The time is more apt for Application developers in India to kickstart the Mobile 2.0 environment to enable the country move rapidly forward in mobile applications activity.


With the Applications relating to Music and entertainment continuing to hog the limelight, the developers have a huge market to tap said Christopher Klotzbach, Director, Flurry from Yahoo at a news conference here in which Flurry Analytics, division of Yahoo announced the findings for 'State of the App Nation in India'.


The study uncovereds insights around mobile app activity and their usage, emerging growth categories and device adoption trends in India.


The study was backed by data gleaned from over 940,000 applications, across 2.1 billion global devices from across the world, and the 58,000 apps, across 147 million devices from India, that use Flurry.


The trends showed Asia and India leading the phablet revolution. The phablet (devices with screens between 5 inch and 6.9 inch) is the fastest growing mobile device globally. In India, phablets have a market share of 61 per cent, outpacing growth in the US which has 48 per cent market share.


'India’s mobile usage looks a lot like global usage did six months ago, still ascending on the growth curve but not at the rate we saw the year prior' Mr Klotzbach said. MORE UNI CNR MSP ADB1500

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