Tablet apps revenues to top $15 bn by 2015: In-Stat

In Stat Research, a market research company in USA has revealed that the market for tablet applications will continue to develop its own identity in the coming years, particularly as the market potential develops. As a result of its research, In-Stat expects tablet application revenues will top $15 billion in 2015.

The report highlights:

* Over 75 per cent of the survey respondents owning a tablet have downloaded applications.

* Despite the rapid diversification in the tablet market, Apple is expected to maintain its tablet application market dominance over Android and other tablet OSs, but will see its 95 per cent market share slip substantially.

* As one might expect, free applications dominate the number of downloads while paid applications dominate revenue.

* Survey respondents indicated that nearly 80 per cent of tablet applications downloaded were through an OS provider store and the majority of respondents prefer using the application store as the preferred method of payment for both the applications and in-application purchases.