We’re making our most innovative products ever and our customers are responding. We’re thrilled to have sold over 5.2 million iPhones during the quarter and users have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications from our App Store in its first year suggesting a big leap in iPhone apps development.” -- Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO July 2009
“Smartphones with advanced OSs, such as Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android and Palm’s Pre, have created an insatiable demand for new iPhone Apps ideas that are downloadable on being developed. U.S. smartphone owners will download nearly a billion applications this year worth $342 million, but that’s nothing; by 2013, 6.7 billion downloads in the U.S. will garner $4.2 billion in revenue, with $2.9 billion going to iPhone app developers and a whopping $1.3 billion to the app store owners.” - Carl Howe, Analyst Yankee Group Research September 2009
"Among the big handset vendors, Nokia, Samsung, Research In Motion, and Apple, all beat expectations for smartphones within the second quarter.” - Ryan Reith, senior research analyst with IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker July 2009
"The software marketplace is certainly feeling the impact of the global economic crisis that is making this a very difficult and uncertain year however there will be brighter days ahead for those vendors that best adopt the emerging technologies and business models that will position them to take advantage of improved economic conditions in the future." - Dick Heiman, director, Model and Forecast Management at IDC June 2009
The mobile middleware market shows strong resiliency in challenging times and mirrors broader IT markets, where software markets tend to fare better than hardware markets. Savvy enterprises recognize that the deployment of a mobile enterprise solution provides strong ROI and cost-reduction benefits." - Stephen D. Drake, program vice president, Mobility and Telecom Jul 2009
"Apple's Apps Store and iPhone coupled with rampant advancement in iPhone apps development domain have emerged as perhaps the single most important center for mobile consumer application innovation. The proliferation of competing application stores and associated developer programs underscore the rapidly emerging competition for mindshare not only of mobile consumers, but increasingly the mindshare of mobile application developers. Apple's Apps Store and its developer community have blazed an enormous lead that others will find difficult to emulate." - Scott Ellison, Vice President of Mobile and Wireless, IDC September 2009