GetJar’s CEO Ilja Laurs says application developers will see a significant increase in their revenues in 2011. According to Mobile Entertainment, Laurs “believes successful app companies can make over US$100 million – ten times the typical turnover for 2010.” He is also predicting that the number of app stores will reduce through consolidation “with only six major app store players surviving the next five years, and just three in ten years.” Laurs also adds that “closed” systems must open up or face the consequences. “Warnings there for iPhone and Windows”, notes the report.

Laurs’s prediction on consolidation echoes a similar point he made in an interview with Mobile Apps Briefing in September. The argument then was how app stores need scale to keep developers satisfied. Smaller stores struggle to survive. He said: “if you don’t have massive traffic to your store (ten million-plus users per month), then you can’t provide relevant download numbers to each of the tens of thousands of developers.” He went on to predict that consumers “will gravitate to one or several dominant app stores, putting other ones out of business.”

These predictions are significant as GetJar is a major player. It claims to be second behind Apple’s App Store on the basis of the number of apps downloaded to date. GetJar says more than 1 billion apps have been downloaded from its store. In October, it said it had reached 3.5 million downloads per day. GetJar also claims to offer more than 75,000 apps in its store.