News: Mobile apps to earn $17bn by 2012

News:  Mobile apps to earn $17bn by 2012
from The Register (UK),  17 Mar 2010

The market for mobile apps - be they for smartphones, less capable "feature phones," or carry-alongs such as Apple's iPad - will swell to $17.5bn by 2012.

Or so says a study commissioned by a company with a vested interest in that growth, Getjar, the self-described "world's largest cross platform app store," with just under 850 million apps downloaded to date.