The main thing for the week (09.09 – 13.09)

How important are user ratings, what trends are observed in the Russian mobile device market, how much money top developers earn on the App Store in the USA – the answers to this and many other questions are in our traditional digest for the past week. 

How important are user ratings?How exactly the user ratings of applications in the App Store are interconnected with the tops, the other day the company Appurify told on the pages of its blog.

Europe has 22% of the mobile app marketEurope is responsible for a quarter of the global mobile app economy, both in terms of consumption and production, says VisionMobile in its latest report.

Apple is the most popular mobile vendor in RussiaMore than a quarter of mobile traffic in Russia is accounted for by Apple devices, according to StatCounter experts.

They also talked about the most popular mobile screen resolutions. There were some surprises.

Twitter buys MoPubLast night it became known about the friendly takeover of the advertising company MoPub by the social platform Twitter.

Apple unveils iPhone 5S and iPhone 5CAt the presentation in Cupertino, Apple introduced as many as two new smartphones.

Perfect World will publish hardcore mobile gamesOne of the largest Chinese publishers of MMO games yesterday announced the beginning of its expansion into the mobile market.

M.Video spoke about the latest trends in the Russian mobile marketOne of the largest domestic retailers has published a traditional analytical catalog with an overview of the Russian mobile device market over the past six months.

FlashGamm was renamed to DevGAMMThe FlashGamm international conference, held by Absolutist twice a year in Kiev and Moscow, has a new name and a new organizer.

Came out Where’s My Water? 2Today, the second part of Disney’s main mobile hit – Where’s My Water? – appeared in the App Store.

Children are increasingly playing on mobile gadgetsIn two years, the average weekly playing time on mobile devices in children has increased by two hours, NPD experts said in their latest study.

In two years, the average weekly playing time on mobile devices in children has increased by two hours, NPD experts said in their latest study.

iOS Top Leaders bring Developers $17 million a yearIn July, Distimo published statistics of top iOS apps.

Based on these figures, the authors of Gamesbrief calculated how much cash applications earn per year.

All about icons and a little about fonts for iOS 7New axis, new icons.

The first information appeared on the web about what exactly designers should pay attention to when developing icons for iOS 7.

MediaBrix: the most effective advertising is in mobile gamesThe numbers decide.

MediaBrix has published a study of the mobile and social gaming markets. It contains a comparison of CTR for social and mobile games, a detailed analysis of the American online advertising market, and much more.