“Here’s another astounding factoid: Just the top 200 most-grossing App Store entries generate four times the revenue than everything offered by the Android Marketplace,” Ed Sutherland reports for Cult of Mac.
“A new report also pegs China as a major App Store user, accounting for 30 percent of overall downloads and nearly half of iPad apps,” Sutherland reports. “According to researcher Distimo, after Apple announced it would accept Chinese Yuan, downloads from the Asian country almost doubled, rising to 30 percent – up from 18 percent in January. The numbers are even more staggering for iPad apps. China accounts for 44 percent of all App Store tablet downloads.”
Sutherland reports, “50 percent of App Store cash come from freemium and in-app purchases via the top 200 most-grossing apps, Distimo said. The App Store is still miles ahead of the Android Market. The iPhone alone has 79,077 App Store games, versus 46,045 Android Market game apps. When you toss in nearly 29,000 iPad games, Apple’s lead is even more clear.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote as recently as last week:
When you have a choice of catering to customers with money and the will to spend it versus those on constant lookout for Buy One Get One (or More) Free deals, choose the former.
Cheapskates who settle for inferior, highly-derivative goods make awful customers.
Smart developers develop for iOS and port watered-down apps — due to extensive fragmentation, not all features can make the cut — to the lesser platforms, if they bother at all.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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