“Riding strong performances in India and Brazil, Google Play’s total app downloads were higher than those in the iOS App Store in Q2 2013,” App Annie reports.
“Though Google Play had more downloads, the iOS App Store still generated 2.3x the revenue,” App Annie reports. “As of Q2 2013, app downloads in Google Play were about 10% higher than those in the iOS App Store. Though Google Play led the iOS App Store in one key measure, there still remained a wide gap in app monetization, as the iOS App Store generated 2.3x the app revenue of Google Play.”
App Annie reports, “The United States, Japan and United Kingdom remained the leaders in the iOS App Store when looking at revenue generation, and Australia climbed to #4 after a strong Q2. iOS App Store revenue was driven primarily by the United States and Japan, which combined to account for about half of the total iOS App Store revenue in Q2.”
Much more in the full article here.
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I don’t believe it. Someone’s fudging the numbers. We already know that most android users don’t even use their devices as app platform. This must be including all “Google Play” downloads, not just apps. Maybe it includes downloading updates to apps, which Apple’s numbers don’t include.
I don’t believe it either.
There are no lies or fudging. This is due to automatic app updating in Android. This is such a non-story.
Statistics. You can use them however you wish. Until someone does some fact checking.
Data lies. Incomplete data lies completely.
There are lies, damn lies and then there are…. statistics.
Thank you Mark Twain
It’s another one of those “Google is beating Apple” articles that the media will jump on without doing any fact checking.
Just some Analcysts number crunching. Those numbers mean jack if the company isn’t getting any revenue. Lets compare Android to a park like Geauga Lake in Ohio. That park did not make enough revenue, so they had to close it down, and move some of the roller coasters to parks such as Cedar Point and Michigan’s Adventure in Muskegon. Think of it this way: Android is Geauga Lake during the 2007 season, (which was their final season) and iPhone is Cedar Point.
Never trust anyone who uses 100 words where 10 would do.
What? I thought I made a great analagy. Cedar Point is obviously the Apple of the theme park world, with Six Flags being the Microsoft. Six Flags ran Geauga Lake into the ground back in the early 2000s, and by the time Cedar Fair bought the park, it was way too late to fix the problems Six Flags caused. Maybe you don’t live in the Cleveland area. You would understand if you did.
So for “… If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge…,”
you’d prefer, “We’re the same as you.”
Nice.
And I only used one word. Had three leftover.
Analcyst? (ho, ho, ho). App Annie just looks like a tech journalist to me.
Thanks for reminding me of the day part of my childhood died. 🙁
——RM
Till we find out sometime in the future that theese numbers ar concoccted too.
There is too much of this crap popping up for it to be a coincidence. This is an active campaign.
you bet, it’s the “Chicago Shakedown.”
Please, Chicago is a great city. I don’t want people to compare a fine place like the Windy City to shifty people like Google or M$. Wait a minute…Chicago has Six Flags Great America…continue on with what you were saying.
No offense intended, was merely an allusion to Al Capone/Obama Messiah extortion tactics.
Ahh…Gotcha
perhaps you can explain to me what a “toddlin’ town” is.
I don’t know, but by the sounds of it, could be used to describe Detroit. Detroit’s politics is actually worse off than Chicago’s. While Chicago does have some crooks in office, they are no where as bad as the politicians that ruined Detroit.
was referring to the lyrics of “Chicago, Chicago”:
Chicago, Chicago, that toddlin’ town
Chicago, Chicago, I’ll show you around, yeah
(You’ll stay around)
Bet your bottom dollar, you lose the blues in
Chicago, Chicago, the folks who visit
All wanna settle down, mmm
(All wanna settle down in my hometown)
On State Street that great street, I just wanna say
[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/chicago-lyrics-chicago.html ]
They do things they don’t do on Broadway
You’ll have the time, the time of your life
Bring all your friends, all your kids and your wife
To Chicago, Chicago, my hometown, hey, now baby
Ooh baby, you’ll have the time, the time of your life
Bring all your friends, all your kids and your wife
To Chicago, Chicago my hometown
Oh, to Chicago, Chicago, my hometown, yeah
The trend is a bit troubling, if it continues. The fact that more people downloaded Google’s offerings than Apple’s is a major symbolic achievement by Google. While it is still not enough to motivate developers to invest massive amounts of resources needed to port their iOS software to Android properly (in other words, without dropping significant features), if this trend continues, one day it might be there.
This is pretty much unavoidable; vast majority of world population cannot afford a $650 iPhone, so they will buy a $100 Android. iPhone’s market share will likely continue to erode, and it should not be a major concern for Apple, or Apple’s fans. We don’t mind driving a BMW, and we don’t really care to see the rest of the world drive a BMW. Let them drive a Hyundai (or a Trabant).
There are several things that will need to be kept under control (by Apple) to ensure premium experience throughout the system for us, Apple users. They will have to ensure that the market share does not erode below the point at which it would become uninteresting for the developers. Right now, it is the best reasonable choice: it offers a unified, consistent, responsive and scalable platform with motivated users, ready to spend disposable income, compared to fragmented, inconsistent and balkanized platform with users looking for free content and apps. As long as situation is such, Apple should be able to afford market share drop to 1:4 (iOS vs. Android) and still offer better return on investment to developers. Dropping below this ratio, however, might tilt things too far in the other directions, and developers might lose motivation.
This is perhaps why a cheaper iPhone will have to exist. Its main disadvantage is that it will bring the kinds of customers that Apple hasn’t really had to deal with before. Some of them may be cheapskates looking for a bargain, and Apple’s legendary customer service may end up suffering because of the heavy influx of lower-revenue users. Still, this may be an unavoidable necessity in order to hold onto the market share needed to keep premium developers in the nest.
It’s not market share for developers that’s important, it’s profit. That’s why many developers have not developed for Android/Windows Phone/Blackberry — the profit does not justify the time and resource commitment.
Not only that, but Android’s so-called “growth” is in emerging markets like Brazil and India. I hope I don’t sound like a ‘Murikan, but America is the most important market for iPhone, (and AndyBot). The emerging markets are actually being targeted by Mozilla’s Firefox OS, and Jolla’s Sailfish OS. Samsung is also in on this with Tizen. Android is popular in these countries because many people over there are still part of the growing middle class, and may not have enough cash for iPhone, which is where the iPhone 5C comes in.
The cheap iPhone will have good margins. Apple will be very happy to sell it to anyone with enough money to buy it. Apple isn’t haughty or stuck up. They just make great stuff and are happy to sell it to the masses. Once in the Apple ecosystem consumers find it difficult to get out. Be they wealthy, middle class or struggling. They all have the same color money : green. Some have more than others. Apple won’t manufacture crap but they are willing to sell their products to everyone. The cheap iPhone will sell like hotcakes!
and 1billion iPhone themes download.
In developing markets, Android phones do not cost $100, they cost $40. Unlimited data plans are $8-$15/mo, including Wi-Fi hot-spot support. So who’s getting screwed?
Wow, that’s a lot of malware unleashed on India and Brazil!
Hopefully, Apple’s new iPhone 5C will fix that.
It’s even more hard to believe when Google lies about there numbers. So I would take it with a grain of salt or less for that matter. Also Apple actually is making money off of there App store so it really doesn’t matter.
Must be Campaign Season for lying nabobs.
Investors need to ask themselves: “what does success for Apple look like to me?”
If the answer is total domination of every segment they field a product in and/or driving Google and Microsoft out of business, you’re going to be disappointed.
However, if you see Apple making great profits and year-over-year growth while selling their products and services to a smaller audience who is willing to pay a little extra for excellence, well, then Apple has a bright future.
At least that nips the Android-users-don’t-download-apps bud.
This is all due to automatic application updates in Andriod which Tim Cook hinted is coming to IOS. Nothing noteworthy here. Let’s move on.
Android’s ad revenue generated by free apps should be included in the overall play store revenue. Google’s ad services are VASTLY superior to Apple’s. This is why many paid apps in iOS are free in the play store.
Well, that is a very tricky one to count. Exactly WHAT type of Google’s ad revenue should be counted as Play Store revenue? Does Google even break down revenue numbers based on the point of origin (web ads vs. embedded ads, further broken down by platform)? And then, if we do that, we’d have to also include all add revenue that Apple brings in through embedded ads in iOS apps (there are plenty of free apps there with embedded ads as well).
It is very likely that Google’s add revenue (from Android apps) is greater than Apple’s add revenue (from iOS apps). But is is also certain that it can nowhere near make up for the massive difference in direct revenue from the two App stores.
And let us not even try to compare paid iOS apps with their free Android equivalents. Even for apps where both versions are free (or both cost the same money) iOS app is significantly better than the Android version, with much fuller feature set, greater stability and better user experience, with the Android version just a lame poorly featured copy with most basic functionality. Many developers simply can’t in all honesty ask for money for such under-featured app, so they offer the limited-functionality Android app for free (who in their sane mind would pay for something like that anyway?). Couple that with the fact that the average Android user refuses to pay for apps (compared to the average iOS user, who doesn’t mind paying for a good app), and it is clear why Android market has a very long road ahead before it becomes equally attractive as iOS for developers.
I guess they will pass iOS in revenu some time to but Apps and revenu per devices Apple seem to have a clear lead.