“Last year, a study concluded that iPhone and BlackBerry users are far more likely to pay for an app — at 57% and 33% respectively,” Mike Schuster reports for Minyanville. “Only 16% of Android users were willing to shell out for a program. Analyst Dean Bubley called paid apps on the Android one of the Biggest Turkeys of 2011. He wrote: ‘There’s a strong correlation between a willingness to spend $$ on apps and willingness to give Steve Jobs $300 gross margin per device. Everyone else counts their pennies & will go for cheap/free wherever possible.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Due to carrier subsidies, to the end user, iPhone costs about the same as a pretend iPhone. The 3GS starts at $49. It doesn’t get much cheaper. Also, of course, thinking people realize that most of a smartphone’s cost isn’t upfront, but in the 2-year plans which are pretty much the same regardless of device.
“Although Android users are more likely to click on apps, developers who are looking for a profit from their hard work are giving Apple first dibs,” Schuster reports. “And Google has taken notice. At the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco this week, Android platform manager Eric Chu said he was ‘not happy’ about the lack of paid app purchases in the Android Market.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Google doesn’t have iTunes. Along with fragmentation and, let’s face it, a user base consisting of freetards and/or less knowledgeable users, the lack of iTunes is Google’s insurmountable problem.
Have you ever seen a beat up VW bug with a Mercedes hood ornament duct taped onto it? Android.