99.4% of all mobile app sales came from Apple in 2009
0. phoneArena posted on 18 Jan 2010, 22:02
Market research firm Gartner suggests that mobile apps are going to be even more profitable and that business will continue to rise...
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2. Hlorri posted on 19 Jan 2010, 02:46 0 0
Seems that both Ars Technica and now PhoneArena have filtered out some important facts -- this headline is actually quite misleading. The comparison was based only on purchase statistics from the official "App Stores" for each platform. As we know, noone is going to claim that Nokia's OVI store is anywhere near competing with the iTunes store (especially since it just got started). If you factor in third party download sites (e.g. GetJar, Handago, SmartPhoneWare, EpocWare, and so on), the stats will be less overwhelming. I'm sure the iTunes App store will still come out on top (and with >100,000 apps, all on a very purchase-centric "ecosystem", why wouldn't it?) -- but then again, we don't have those statisitics.
3. nak1017 posted on 19 Jan 2010, 13:08 0 0
Ummmmm, sales or downloads? There are free apps in the app store... this article seems like statistics run-a-foul...
4. JK Wylde posted on 19 Jan 2010, 13:42 0 0
Ya, yet another waste of time. This is obvious (and pointless) information. Apple's app store has been around for almost 3 years, Android just started popping off when it hit Spint and Verizon last October, Blackberry just started focusing on letting everyone know about their apps, and the Nokia and WinMo apps have only recently started gaining momentum. DUH! Thats just like trying to slam the WebOS app store's number of apps in comparison to Apple's. It doesn't mean you have better quality stuff, just that Apple has been doing it longer. There are more articles that have been added to this site today, than can be put on one page of the View All Articles' section. And it's only 2:41 EST!!! Phonearena, stop flooding your site with pointless articles!!!!!
