据柏林的市场分析咨询机构Research2guidance的研究称今年上半年全球智能手机应用程序市场的规模为22亿美元，该机构甚至还预测APP市场将在2013年达到150亿美元。

在今年上半年手机应用程序下载次数高达38亿次，已经超过了2009年全年的31亿次。

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这些强劲的数据增长来源于苹果app store、google旗下android market、诺基亚的ovi以及黑莓手机的app world等的快速发展。

techcrunch的消息认为这些预测还是显得有些保守，同样的咨询公司GetJar在今年三月份发布的一份报告还宣称手机应用程序市场将于2012年超过CD的市场达到175亿美元的市场规模。

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Research2guidance, a Berlin-based research organization specialized in all things mobile, recently forecasted the worldwide smartphone application market to reach $15 billion by 2013.

In an update, the firm says the global smartphone app market has in fact already reached $2.2 billion in the first six months of this year.

Also according to research2guidance’s findings, mobile application download numbers reached a total of 3.8 billion in the first semester of this year, compared to 3.1 billion in 2009 (full year, to be clear).

The firm attributes the strong growth numbers to the success of Apple’s App Store, Android Market and other mobile app stores like Ovi Store and Blackberry’s App World.

In the future, they expect growth to also come from niche stores for verticals such as business or health.

The research organization’s projections are fairly conservative compared to others. An independent study released last March by app store company GetJar indicated that the market for mobile apps could grow to a whopping $17.5 billion – thus overtaking CD sales – by 2012.

In an earlier report, research2guidance posited that the big surge in applications will also be driven by a fast-growing number of smartphone users worldwide, which the research company estimates will increase from about 100 million in 2009 to nearly 1 billion by 2013.（source：techcrunch）