subject: China Becomes The World's Second-largest Mobile Phone Application Market [print this page] The smart phone applications are becoming more and more popular in China. Since the January of this year, the world's most populous nation has been downloading and using the phone applications. China has become the world's second largest mobile phone applications using country after the U.S.
However, according to the data, Apple is still a minor role in the Chinese market. It accounted for 16% of smart phone market share and 3% share of the overall mobile phone market. According to the statistics, China is the country that has the most mobile phone users in the world and the mobile phone users are more than 952 million.
What is really shocking is the popularity speed of the Chinese mobile phone applications. Since the January of this year, China's mobile application usage increased 870%. Also from the January to the October, the share China's new application downloads increased from 1.2% to 12%.
In the past, the application developers focused on the North American and European markets, but now China has become a very attractive market. It must not be taken lightly. China is waiting for mobile application developers to explore. Now, application developers should improve the language skills and be ready to fly around China.
The prosperity of the application market is inseparable from the efforts of telecom operators. From the perspective of communications operators, networks, terminals, applications are the three essential elements of 3G development. To make the domestic application market bigger and stronger is the only way for the domestic development of 3G.
The mobile applications, as services equipped on the mobile terminal, network and terminal is the most basic hardware foundation, especially 3G networks and terminals. The prosperity of the domestic mobile applications market, on the one hand thanks to the popularity of 3G intelligent terminals and the optimization of the 3G network coverage. With the increasing penetration of global smart terminals, mobile platforms gradually entered the mass market. Up to now, the domestic 3G users have exceeded one hundred million.
On the other hand, the domestic carriers are involved in a positive attitude to develop integrated mobile application content. Not only China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom are also actively involved in the integration of the mobile applications, content and platform. China Mobile MM has become the world's largest Chinese language software store. Since the January of this year, MM's revenue grows 200%, and has brought more than 70 million in revenue for the application developers.
