It’s impossible not to notice the present day tendency of replacing traditional information media with digital content. Sales of pieces of music were the first to show that users prefer downloading files from the Internet rather than buying CDs as it was before. Recently the famous American online shop Amazon announced the dominance of e-books over paper ones in the current volume of sales. The services in downloading games are also popular – at present the buyers of display cards get a coupon for downloading the game from the net instead of the disk with the game.
According to NPD Group, in the first half of this year the number of downloaded games exceeded the volume of games sold through offline shops. During this period about 8.2 mln boxes of games were sold in standard shops and about 11.2 mln ones through online services. Of course, we are talking about legal purchases of games on the territory of the USA. Thus, game developers will produce more and more games and will sell them online. Moreover, the same situation is similar with mobile game development.
(according to the latest tendencies) it is likely to become a resort for many specialized applications created by amateurs. Thus, the general number of mobile applications in the App Market will increase considerably.
The Internet store Google Android Market where users can download for free or buy applications for their Android smartphones steadily expands the volume of available soft, however, the company is facing tough critics from the side of users and