Google sees app revenue growth of 311 percent.
While the Apple App Store is four times more profitable than Google Play, Android's revenue for apps has risen by 311 percent since January and 17.9 percent during the last month.
Comparatively, Apple's app revenue has increased by 12.9 percent this year, but decreased by 0.7 percent in the last month. iOS, however, boasts 10 percent more volume of global free apps downloaded when compared to Android.
That said, Google Play's growth stands at 48 percent during the last five months, while Apple settled for a 3.3 percent growth rate in the free app market.
"The gap between global revenue on iOS and Google Play is still there," said Bertrand Schmitt, App Annie CEO. "But the gap is shrinking every month, creating more opportunities for publishers to generate significant revenue growth in several countries on Google Play."
"Although, in the most recent month, growth has slowed considerably, and the question remains, can Google Play keep growing at a lightning pace?" the report added.
Since its inception, the Google Play store has, as of September, exceeded the 25 billion downloads millstone. Last month saw Google Play matching the same amount of iOS apps with 700,000 applications available for download.
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Not everything needs to be about profit.
The iOS app, meanwhile, just about breaks even. Thank goodness for more profitable desktop software...
What the article actually means is that Apple device owners are four times more grateful to the developers working for the platform. Not surprising judging by the s**t talking dog above. Hope that's not the typical representative of Android users. Therefore the latter get all the s**t developers to work for them and see the abundance of trojans and crap applications.
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Um they cost the same twit.
They cost the same. Should read Android users 4 times cheaper to pay $1.00 for apps or Android Users pirate 4 times more than iOS users for $1.00 apps
That flaw is it's too easy to pirate on the platform. If we were to calculate pirated apps/games
and mix put that into the total I am sure the gap would be much smaller.
While in my personal opinion Android is the superior OS and it's openness makes it even greater it does come with that one draw back if you are a app developer. As long as iPhones and iPads continue to sell they will bring in more sales and revenue for developers.
Generally people want to get some compensation for their time and efforts. I'd think if a company hired developers to make software they'd have the expectations to make their money back and some profit. You know the thing Samsung does with their phones? Make a product to sell to make money. You know what Microsoft does with its software.
If someone has a hobby and wants to provide something for free, awesome! But a lot of people have an opportunity cost associated with the time takes to develop and app and want to make money from it either directly or indirectly.
You can't install (sideload) pirated apps on Android unless you tinker with at least 2 different developer options in settings. Even so, some apps require root, which means additional tinkering.
If you want the freedom of Android and the feel that you actually own your phone and make it unique, you get it. OTOH, if you want your phone to be identical to the one next to it, go for iOS. In that case, you'll want everyone to drive the same car(make/model) as you do, live in identical houses that look all the same (inside and out), maybe have identical looking spouses... You get the drift.
People that use Android are better informed about their decisions and only buy what they need, which usually isn't much. With free Ebook readers, music players, video players, etc, reality is the average consumer doesn't really "need" to buy any apps. It has nothing to do with Apple being a money magnet, the same consumers buying apps would buy the apps on Android if Apple was not around.
Possibly. ...but possibly not. Again, I noticed desirable apps in the app store that are simply not available in the play store (ie., Pinball HD). While there may be alternatives they'r often not as high quality IME. I do admit that I'm more picky than most. However, my S3 is worth it.
You know, you are not the only bright person who came to an idea that pirated = lost sale.
Yet closing megaupload resulted in slight decline of revenues. Strange uh?
Oh and you know what are the piracy rates on iOS? Let me remind you:
1) 90% piracy rate (number of times an app got pirated)
2) only 10% of users actually jailbreak
Strange uh? Now let me explain it to you, this is because:
1) Pirates download tons of stuff, most of it BS, generating huge traffic and making bosses behind MAFIAA hysterical about lost income
2) Most of the pirates would never ever buy most of the stuff they download, many won't buy any