It's an interesting read, but I think it's a bit premature to say freemium mobile gaming is on the decline.
While I don't want to force correlation and causation here, I think one of the following is happening.
1. People who go already were playing games on mobile device now prefer spending more time on other mobile content like Twitch.
2. People who are joining the mobile space are doing it ONLY to find online mobile content like Twich and SNS, therefor deflating the number of mobile gamers as a whole.
I want to be the optimist and say that the latter is more likely. If it was true, we should be MORE excited that there are more people who have the potential to become mobile gamers and give top developers better reason to make higher quality games. (Freemium or Premium)
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