Mobile App stores have been a boon to millions of mobile users across the work. They allow users to extend the functionality of mobile phone to their liking. Many mobile marketplace apps are free, so users don’t even incur any costs.
Even from app developer perspective, they are quite beneficial. Infact, many development companies and individuals make good living developing apps for mobile app stores.
Distimo, and analytics company, who track these mobile stores have published some interesting statistics on following Mobile App stores:
- Apple App Store
- BlackBerry App World
- Google Android Market
- Nokia Ovi Store
- Palm App Catalog
- Windows Mobile Marketplace
Number of Paid Applications per price interval
Interesting Mobile App Store statistics
More than 50% of applications are priced below or equal to $2.00 in all stores, with the exception of BlackBerry App World and Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
The average price of all paid applications and the 100 most popular paid applications in the Apple App Store for iPad ($4.65) is higher than in the Apple App Store for iPhone ($4.01).
Google Android Market has the largest share of free applications (57%) and Windows Marketplace for Mobile has the smallest (22%).
Nine out of the ten most popular free applications and eight out of ten most popular paid applications in the Apple App Store for iPhone are games.
In the competitive e-reader market, both the iBooks application by Apple, Inc., and the Kindle application by Amazon.com are ranked among the 10 most popular free applications in the Apple App Store for iPad. Apple’s application is ranked number one however, and Amazon’s application is ranked number ten.
Five out of the ten most popular free applications in Windows Marketplace for Mobile are published by Microsoft Corporation.
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