List of mobile software distribution platforms
This list of notable digital distribution platforms for mobile devices includes digital distribution platforms that are intended to provide mobile apps to mobile devices. For information on each mobile platform and its market share see the operating systems section of mobile operating system and smart phone. A comparison of development capabilities of each mobile platform can be found in the article mobile development. For cross-platform development see multiple phone web-based application framework. The article mobile software contains other general information.
These application market places are native to the major mobile operating systems.
~6 billion (August 2012)
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(September 2015)
93 million smartphones
(September 2015)
Third-party platforms are software distribution platforms which are used as alternatives for operating system native distribution platforms. Independent operating systems are software collections which use their own software distribution, customized user interface, SDK and API (except billing API which is related only to application store).
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