An earlier blog post looked at the decisions some mobile application developers have to make when creating apps. The overarching theme the decision affects is the business of mobile applications. It’s a very lucrative business, as leading analyst firm Gartner predicted that mobile app store revenues will reach $6.2B in 2010. That’s certainly a lot of money to spread around the ecosystem, which partly consists of developers and the App Stores themselves.

It simply starts with an idea, either for a game, business, travel or productivity app. To help foster the idea into an actual application, a variety of businesses, including Google, are putting together tools to help with the development. Quickoffice’s vision and idea started over 10 years ago. We’ve been refining our development technique and have thrived in creating high-quality, robust apps for our valued users.

While Quickoffice’s heritage has been in mobile apps for years, the consumer market and analyst market are starting to support the business of mobile apps even more.

The latest: Google App Inventor for Android, which allows users to build apps by dragging and dropping visual blocks of code into a display, rather than inputing lines of code. Gartner also predicted worldwide downloads in mobile application stores will surpass 21.6 billion by 2013, so it’s no wonder consumers and companies alike are eyeing the business of apps and liking what they see.