App Downloads Explode: 755m in Germany, 3.9bn Worldwide in Q1 & Q2

In What's the Buzz by Siobhan O'Leary

By Siobhan O’Leary Germans love their apps now more than ever. Based on data provided by the market research institute research2guidance, BITKOM [the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media] estimates that German mobile phone users will have downloaded 755 million apps by the end of 2010 — that’s a 78% increase over last year. In the first …