The consumer spending trends in the United State at the end of the year are largely computed upon the sales figures of the Black Friday and Cyder Monday shopping fiestas and with this year’s figures, it can be safe to states that, the consumers haven’t really refrained from conducting their shopping sprees despite the massive global economic downturn. Apart from the retail chains and online spending, another metric that needs to be taken into account is the sale of applications for smart phones, mobile devices and especially for the Apple iPhone via the Apple Apps Store.

Even though the sales of applications from the apps store are always relatively lower than that of the online retail chains such as Amazon, Wal-Mart etc. still the fact that, Apple was able to persuade the the users to download more than two billion applications shows that the mobile device applications market has achieved exponential growth.

The increasing sales of the Apple iPhone, launch of the upgrade of the iPhone base software and the constant influx of highly useful applications ranging from navigation, communication, medicine etc. shows an emerging pattern of the growing popularity of the mobile apps and the surge in applications can be tapped into by developers make money this holiday season.

Via Mashable.