“App prices on Apple’s App Store are rebounding 14 percent in 2011 compared to an 18 percent decline in 2010 and the company’s average selling price is US$1.44,” Larry Dignan reports for ZDNet. “Of that sum, Apple gets an average of 26 cents per download, according to Piper Jaffray.”
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Dignan reports, “Munster estimates the average iOS user will download 83 apps in 2011, up from 51 in 2010. That’s a 61 percent gain year over year. Roughly 82 percent of apps on the App Store are free. The other 18 percent represent paid apps with an average selling price (ASP) of US$1.44. That price is below the US$1.61 average of Apple’s top 50 paid iPhone apps.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
What a pointless, meaningless opening sentence.
You’re right. And off we go on another tour of the ridiculous.
That just means that higher quality apps that people are willing to pay a little extra are becoming more common.