The report the number of apps by each App Market in China.

Enfodesk published that a report the number of apps by each App Market in China.

*Blue line = on December , Orange line = on November, Green line = v.s. last month


According to this report,  App market that have the most apps in China was Apple's App store, and the second position was Google's Android Market.


#3 and its later was as following:

#3   91 mobile assistant
#4   189 store by China Telecom
#5   Mobile Market by China Mobile
#6   Samsung Apps
#7   Gfan Market
#8   Anzhi Market
#9   AppChina
#10  3G software
#11  Wo store by China Unicom
#12  Nokia Ovi
#13  Le store by Lenovo


And the ratio of paid and free apps by each market are as following:

*Blue Line is free Apps, and yellow line is paid Apps.


The ratio of free apps was very high in Android Market and other related Android App market, but in Carrier's market such as Mobile Market and Wo store have high ratio of paid apps.


As I reported before, Android is the most popular smart phone OS in China. But for considering the success of business, we have to find the other ways of selling Apps.



Original article => Eguan

In Chinese smart phone market, the shipment share of Android device reached about 70% as of Q4'11.

According to the report by Enfodesk, the shipment share of Android device reached 68.4% in Chinese smart phone market as of Q4,11.

As of Q1'11, Android smart phone is the second position in Chinese market, but as of Q4'11 it jumped to the top position, and had a lead of triple score for Symbian.

And from the point of view annual shipment market, its share of Android smart phone was 51.1%.


The reason of this result is very simple, because 3 big carriers in China all was driving force to sell Android device, even if China Unicom who are selling iPhone did that.

And a lot of mobile device company, such as Motolora, HTC, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and so on, was also driving force to sell Android device in China.


2days ago, China Telecom formally announced selling iPhone from March 9,  but we have to pay attention whether its impact will become big or not.



Original article => Enfodesk

Chinese mobile internet users already reached over 400 million people. Total this market revenue in 2011 was over than 8.6 billion RMB.

Enfodesk published the report written about Chinese mobile internet market trend in 2011.

According to this report, Chinese mobile internet user already reached 431 million people, and its market revenue was 2.518 billion RMB as of Q4,2011.

And its annual market revenue was 8.622 billion RMB.


The breakdown of its revenue is as following:

#1 Mobile apps and service revenue   42.2%
#2 Traffic revenue   41.8%
#3 Mobile shopping revenue   12.5%
#4 Mobile ads revenue   3.5%


The breakdown of its revenue arranged chronologically as following:

Mobile ads is rapidly growing from Q3'11 to Q4'11.


And this report said, with mobile shopping market size continues expanding, mobile payment and mobile security will be actually emphasized, and it's also expected that these two market will have more importance for breakthrough in 2012.


Original article => Enfodesk

China Telecom formally annouced to start selling iPhone 4S from March 9.

Today, China telecom announced to sell iPhone 4S at last.

They will start to sell iPhone 4S from March 9, and will start to take a on-line reservation from March 2.


At the same time, China Telecom announced charge plans for iPhone 4S as following:

For example, if users buy iPhone 4S 16GB in case of having two-year contract with paying 289RMB/month, they have to pay 1,699RMB when they get it.
And if user buy iPhone 4S 16GB in case of having two-year contract with paying 389RMB/month, they have to pay 0RMB when they get it.



According to the news, China Telecom has 38.7 million users as of January, 2011. And we have to pay attention whether iPhone 4S affect increasing their 3G user or not.



Original article => Press release  by China Telecom, JRJ.com, Hexun.com

Sina Weibo started beta test of "Micro Public Welfare".

Sina Weibo started beta test of "Micro Public Welfare".

Users can contribute donation or volunteer for some project on Sina Weibo.


This is a project to send some stationaries and sporting goods for elementary school student at Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

Users can select donation amount by themselves on each project page.

About payment, now user can only pay donations via some Banks, in near future they may be able to pay it via "WeiBi(it's a virtual mony on the Sina Weibo)".


Of course contribution is not only sending some donation, but also sharing the information of a project and volunteer for some projects.

I feel that Social Media have strong diffusivity, so such as this action is much suitable for Social Media, particularly Weibo.

I want to continue paying attentions this "Micro Public Welfare" :-)



Original article => Micro Public Welfare

Chinese third party on-line payment continued its rapid growth in 2011.

Eguan published the report of Chinese third party on-line payment industry trend, and it continued rapid growth in 2011 too.

The report said its annual trade in 2011 was 2161000000000 RMB, and its growth was  99.0% compared with 2010.


And the report also said its annual trade in 2014 will reach 99429000000000 RMB.


The quarterly trade amount from Q4 '10 to Q4 '11 is as following:

In Q4'11 its annual trade amount was 738600000000 RMB, and its growth rate compared with Q3'11 was 30.9%



And this graph is a market share by each services.

#1  Alipay(Alibaba group)      46.0%

#2  Tenpay(Tencent group)  21.2%

#3  UnionPay                            10.8%

#4 99bill.com                             6.2%
#5 ChinaPnR                              6.1%



According to this report, it may occur the movement such as acquisition in 2012, so we have to keep attention this market too :-)



Original article => Eguan

Facebook submitted 61 key words the trademark registration to Chinese government.

According to the news, Facebook already submitted 61 keywords as the trademark registration to Chinese government as following.

Those keywords include not only the word of "Facebook", but also Chinese character such as "脸书", "面书", "飞思簿" and so on.


But it's not mean Facebook was ready to formally entry Chinese social market, but it may they want to avoid conflicts of trademark registration problem such as iPad.


And we can find the word of "SOUNDBOARD" in this list, will they start the one of music service in China?


We must keep attentions the action of Facebook in China from now on too.





















Original article => Tech Sina, Tech Sina Weibo