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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
BERLIN, GERMANY: Sixty-five percent of all downloads in the diabetes app market are generated by only 14 app publishers. The majority of top publishers are small app developers. The competitive landscape is still fragile.
With the exception of sanofi-aventis, Metronic and Medisana the most successful diabetes app publishers are small technology companies. Some of them have produced medical devices for diabetes tracking but most of them have started their business with the upcoming of the app market after 2008 as pure app developers.
A significant number of diabetes app publishers, not only those in the top 14, developed their solution based on their personal experience with the disease. For most of the top players the initial motivation to publish a diabetes app was to make life easier for themselves, relatives or friends - developing a products only came second.
http://www.ciol.com/ciol/news/211333/top-14-diabetes-app-publishers-capture-65-percent-share
With the exception of sanofi-aventis, Metronic and Medisana the most successful diabetes app publishers are small technology companies. Some of them have produced medical devices for diabetes tracking but most of them have started their business with the upcoming of the app market after 2008 as pure app developers.
A significant number of diabetes app publishers, not only those in the top 14, developed their solution based on their personal experience with the disease. For most of the top players the initial motivation to publish a diabetes app was to make life easier for themselves, relatives or friends - developing a products only came second.
http://www.ciol.com/ciol/news/211333/top-14-diabetes-app-publishers-capture-65-percent-share