Study says Android apps are more expensive than the competition

2. Carlitos posted on 25 Feb 2012, 14:16 5 0

Um no B.S. This test isnt even well taken. The right way to do this, is taking 100 apps that are the same on all three platforms.

3. Sniggly posted on 25 Feb 2012, 14:22 8 0

If they were to pick all 100 of the exact same apps it would be a different story. For instance, Angry Birds, which is free on Android, is a buck on iOS and THREE BUCKS on Windows Phone.

4. taz89 posted on 25 Feb 2012, 14:23 5 0

ummm didnt PA already post this news like yesterday!!

6. remixfa posted on 25 Feb 2012, 14:28 6 1

this is just an extension of the same BS study they posted the other day.

the top downloaded apps on android will be cheaper then either other platform. most apps are free on android even when they paid on other platforms .. like angry birds. most "paid apps" are just add free versions of the free apps with a little extra functionality or donate versions of free versions to pay our awesome root community developers. apps like EA games are the minority. .. and for good reason with their pricing.
iOS and wp7 have a much higher % paid app library than Android by far... its a different beast all together.
compare the same apps across platforms or gtfu.

8. protozeloz posted on 25 Feb 2012, 14:44 0 0

This news is already repeated except for the added wp7 part.

9. Bluesky02 posted on 25 Feb 2012, 14:49 0 0

This study will soon show that Windows Phone Apps are more expensive.

11. biophone posted on 25 Feb 2012, 16:12 0 0

Who cares what app costs its really insignificant compared to the price of the phone over two years.

12. kellybl131 posted on 25 Feb 2012, 16:41 0 0

Let's ignore the fact for just a second that a lot of the top 100 applications on Android are for ROOT users and such apps don't even exist in the App Store for iOS. I say a better comparrison would be the same apps from both stores, not just the top 100.

13. squallz506 posted on 25 Feb 2012, 17:30 1 0

I wonder what os has the most free apps?

16. Stuntman posted on 25 Feb 2012, 19:26 1 0

This is a fairly useless comparison. If you look at the apps that I have on my Android phone, a number of them would be unavailable on iOS. The comparison of the top 100 apps on both platforms shows that there are only 19 apps that overlap on the list. This means that Android users buy different apps than iOS users. I don't see how this is really useful.

17. jtc8008 posted on 25 Feb 2012, 20:29 2 0

Lame study that was posted the other day. Hypathetically if there was an app on Android that was not on the other apps that cost $400 that would make Android the most expensive app store for the top apps. Compare the same apps retards.

18. Tarzan posted on 26 Feb 2012, 08:53 0 1

Why is it so hard to understand that they are not comparing individual applications but top 10 or 20 or 100 on all THREE OS stores ??

Whats number one on App Store may NOT be number one on the Market and so on.

A quote from the article above;

"Canalys Managing Director Rachel Lashford pointed out that it is a positive for Android that developers can charge so much and make it into the top 100"

Jesus Christ! you guys being ripped off by paying more money, yet you defend your favorite OS. I pity you!