The mobile application market has seen explosive growth in recent years, with Apple’s App Store boasting more than
400,000 applications and Google’s Android Market also having well above 150,000 applications. According to a recent
study, the mobile application market will reach $17.5 billion by 2012. By then, the number of mobile application down-
loads will have also grown to nearly 50 billion from just over 7 billion in 2009