Report: MapQuest, Weather Channel top apps

The latest report from Telephia finds that MapQuest Mobile and the Weather Channel are the top revenue generating downloadable mobile apps, if you exclude mobile games and mobile TV applications. MapQuest Mobile secured a healthy 21.9 percent of the total marketshare for such applications while The Weather Channel came in second with 5.7 percent. Verizon Superpages nipped at the heels of the Weather Channel with 5.3 percent of the total market. Two mobile music apps: Music Choice and Sirius Music took the next two slots with 5 percent and 4.8 percent, respectively. As Telephia notes, weather and directions are well-suited to the mobile platform because they require immediacy, location-specificity and time-sensitivity. The remaining apps in the top ten were: Accuweather.com Premium, eBay, Backup Assistant, America's Best Mobile Pix, Yahoo Photos and ESPN Bottomline Pro.

For more on Telephia's latest report:
- see this press release