Mobile apps market to rocket by 2012, survey finds

13:02 18th March 2010

The mobile application market will rocket over the next two years, a new study has claimed.

Getjar, the world's second biggest app store, said the market will hit $17.5 billion (£12 billion) by 2012.

According to the research, downloads would post a 92 per cent year-on-year increase in the next two years, from seven billion in 2009 to 50 billion.

"It is easy to see how mobile apps will eclipse the traditional desktop Internet. It makes perfect sense that mobile devices will kill the desktop," said GetJar chief executive Ilja Laurs.

In other news, the Newspaper Publishers Association (NPA) has called the BBC Trust to stop the corporation's plans to launch iPhone apps for its sports and news content.

"Not for the first time, the BBC is preparing to muscle into a nascent market and trample over the aspirations of commercial news providers," said David Newell, NPA's director.

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Written by Paul Davis

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