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Year 2015: 25 Billion Mobile App Downloads

Readwriteweb.com reported a claim made by the market research firm, Juniper.  In a report they released this week, they expect, by the year 2015, consumers will have downloaded at least 25 billion mobile applications to their Smartphones.  Compared to the 2.6 billion applications downloaded in 2009, this will be a mammoth increase. Notably, the predicted increase is due to worldwide “app stores,” including China and India.  The report mentioned “app stores” Getjar, China Unicom, India’s… Read more »

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YouTube New Mobile Site Goes All HTML5 on Us, Leaves Native Apps in the Dust

Via TechCrunch: If you’ve got a phone with an HTML5 compliant browser, you’ll probably want to check out YouTube’s new mobile site, which is rolling out over the next few hours at m.youtube.com. It’s a major upgrade from the old mobile web app, with a more polished UI and better load times. It also uses plenty of HTML5 features, including the video tag. But most important is the fact that the web app has superior… Read more »