Annual Mobile Application Downloads to Hit 20 billion by 2014, According to Juniper Research, as acrossair Takes the Gold Award for Mobile Apps

Hampshire , UK:  14th July 2009 -- New market projections from Juniper Research have shown that the number of mobile application downloads will approach almost 20 billion per annum by 2014. The increasing deployment of app stores targeted at mass market handsets, allied to enhancements in storefront interfaces and an ever increasing array of titles appealing to wider demographics have been the main factors driving this market.

The Mobile Applications research found that the remarkable success of the App Store – which passed 1 billion downloads in April – has led a raft of vendors, OS providers and operators to launch their own storefronts, with more poised to launch over the coming months.

Meanwhile, Juniper Research has announced its first Future Mobile Awards for Mobile Applications.  The Future Mobile Awards are given to companies that Juniper believes have made significant progress within their sector during the previous year, and are poised to make considerable market impact in the future.

Gold Future Mobile Award for acrossair

Juniper’s first Gold Award for Mobile Apps goes to acrossair for their ingenious augmented reality app, “Nearest Tubeâ€, developed for the iPhone 3GS. Co-Founder of acrossair, Chetan Damani says; “We are extremely pleased to have been awarded the Gold award for Mobile Apps by Juniper Research, a number of late nights went in to creating this application and it’s rewarding for the whole team to be recognised for the work they put in by an organisation such as Juniper.  Everyone in the technology landscape has heard of Juniper Research and it’s a great accolade for all our techies and designers in the team to receive a Gold award for our nearest tube app.â€

Tapulous Takes Silver

Meanwhile, the Silver Award was given to Tapulous, the developer behind the highly successful ‘Tap Tap Revenge’ and its recently published sequel, ‘Tap Tap Revenge 2’.

Juniper Research assesses the current and future status of the mobile applications market based on interviews, case studies and analysis from representatives of some of the leading organisations in the growing mobile applications industry.

Mobile Apps Whitepaper and further details of the study ‘Mobile Applications & Apps Stores: Business models, Opportunities & Forecasts 2009-2014’ can be freely downloaded from the Juniper Research website.