company’s mobile agenda when it comes to how a they believe their customers are using Apple’s iPhone.  When the iPhone was first introduced as a “breakthrough internet communicator”at MacWorld back in 2007, few truly understood that how people access and use the internet was about to change.  Five years later, by looking at four of the dominant leaders in web-based search, mail and chat from the past decade — Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL — you can clearly see the strengths each have used to transition themselves from web to mobile by how they’ve developed apps in their rival’s App Store. Some of them are in transition (Yahoo) or have their own mobile platforms (Microsoft, Google) but all of them have found comfortable homes on the iOS platform.

I gathered data from online app services like AppShopper.com, 148Apps.biz and Apple’s ownSearch API in order to gain some insight as to what each company has accomplished in 2012.  Each app listed under the company’s name was counted, along with the latest release date, category, number of updates made in 2012, whether or not the app was introduced as a new in 2012, as well as their peak ranking within each app’s respective category.  Here is what I found:
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