List of Compiled Stats
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Java smart card numbers
- 112 million javacards were shipped in 2001, which made up 51% of the total number of multi-application smart cards. It is projected that 200 million javacards will be shipped in 2002, making up 56% of the total multi-application smart card market.
- In 2001, Java SIM cards (Subscriber ID modules in cellphones) grew 92% and made up about 25% of all SIM cards (96 million java SIM cards). The number of java SIM cards is expected to grow to 162 million (or 36% of total) in 2002.
- American Express and Visa have adopted Java Card technology as the platform of choice for the development of their smart card applications. The very popular AMEX Blue card (current circulation: more than 4 million in the USA)
is a java smart card. After only 18 months, Blue accounted for 10 percent of all U.S. Amex cards, and should hit about 10 million cards in 2002. There are also about 7 million VISA smart cards in the country.
- Target stores began the first large scale smart card based loyalty program in the United States last September 2001. Target sent out 2.5 MILLION java smart cards, along with free smart card readers to its customers.
- Government agencies are currently issuing Java Card technology-based smart cards as their new identification cards to replace existing "paper" identification cards. Most recently the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) named Java Card technology as the platform of choice for the Transportation Workers(TW) card, the first national identity card for transportation workers. The Department of Defense is issuing a Common Access Card to 4.3 million active duty U.S. military personnel and eligible contractors. The Government of Taiwan will deploy a Java Card technology-based smart card as their new health insurance identification card to all 24 million residents.
Number Java-enabled phones shipped
- 94 million java-enabled phones from 22 OEMs have been shipped (source: J. Schwartz, EE Times, June 2003)
Number of network operators carrying Java ME (J2ME)-enabled devices (phones)
- NTT DoCoMo
- Sprint
- Vodafone
- Orange
- AT&T Wireless
- China Unicom
- Nextel
- +XX more!
Java consumer apps downloaded and purchased (samples)
- European mmO2 almost doubled the number of MMS active users to more than 180,000 and saw the number of Java games purchased to date increase from 278,000 to more than half a million since its last reported figures at the end of March 2003. (July 2, 2003)
- More than 13 million consumers download java apps using NTTDoCoMo's 2.5G i-appli service, with 60% of the apps being games (Fall 2002).
Global Wireless Gaming Users by Game Platform (millions): 2002-2007
| |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
| mBrowser gamers |
23.1 |
29.5 |
44.7 |
56.3 |
54.4 |
51.3 |
| SMS/MMS gamers |
41.7 |
55.4 |
64.8 |
70.1 |
73.3 |
76.1 |
| Java/BREW gamers |
3.8 |
20.6 |
43.3 |
76.8 |
110.8 |
146.8 |
| Gaming deck gamers |
0 |
0.2 |
2.8 |
6.2 |
17.6 |
32.8 |
Source: The Research Room, 2003
Global Wireless Gaming Revenue (US$ billions): 2002-2007
| |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
| Revenue - game purchase |
$0.1 |
$0.4 |
$1.8 |
$4.5 |
$9.8 |
$16.6 |
| Revenue - traffic |
$0.5 |
$1.2 |
$2.9 |
$5.5 |
$12.1 |
$24.7 |
| Total gaming revenue |
$0.6 |
$1.5 |
$4.7 |
$10.1 |
$21.9 |
$41.3 |
Source: The Research Room, 2003
Palm OS statistics
- In the European market from Q2 2002 to Q2 2003, Palm and Sony (both Palm OS) showed significant year-on-year growth of 45 per cent and 64 per cent, respectively. HP's shipments (Windows CE) grew too, by 2%, but not enough to prevent its market share tumbling from 36 per cent to 25%.
Source: The Register (July 2003)
- More than 85 percent of enterprises chose Palm OS as their platform for mobile solution development, according to a 2002 report by Maritz Research. And, in a 2002 study by the Gantry Group, Palm Powered handhelds had a 41 percent lower total cost of ownership than those that use the Microsoft Pocket PC platform.
Source: Mobic.com
- A recent study by retail market analyst NPDTechworld indicates that Palm
OS applications take the cake when it comes to the amount and type of
handheld software sold in the U.S.
Palm OS-based applications accounted for more than 97 percent of all
handheld software titles sold in 2001, naming PalmSource, Inc., a
subsidiary of Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) as the number one maker of
handheld applications.
Source: Internetnews.com (April 2002)
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