Mobile app analytics company Distimo has assembled these easy to understand graphs, based on the latest findings on the six largest mobile phone apps stores on offer from Apple, Palm, Research In Motion, Google, Nokia and Microsoft.
Distimo notes that Android's growth rate is fastest, amassing 3,000 new apps per month (15 per cent growth rate), while Apple is growing at about 14,000 new apps per month (9 per cent).
The stats show each company's store size, rate of growth, average price of apps and the free-versus-paid-app ratio.
Size, growth, pricing
Clearly, Apple is way out ahead of the competition (151,000 apps), having had something of a head start (not to mention acres of column inches of invaluable PR) with the App Store.
Following Apple is Google's Android Market (19,300 apps). And lower down the app ecosystem we have Windows Mobile (690 apps), Palm (1,450), Nokia (6,120) and BlackBerry (4,760).
In terms of cost, RIM's apps cost the most, an average of $8.26 for apps, Windows Mobile cost $7 on average and Nokia, Apple, Google and Palm apps all fall in the $2.50 - $3.60 price range.
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lamont
February 24th 2010
2. The most used/popular apps will eventually be on all the platforms. I have been a mac user for five years and have a combined total of 26 widgets and apps on my desktop system. I use them all and I am quick to uninstall the ones that I won't regularly use. So, who really cares that apple may be the first to have 250,000 apps of which 240,000 will barely get used! Further, I can't believe people are so blindly willing to pay for apps that are free to laptops and desktops. Come on people you are being duped into paying for what has been given away for free!!!!!! WE already know that many major corporations want users to pay to access everything on the web. Why give them hope?
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mattswain
February 24th 2010
1. This is an idiotic use of statistics. If you've got few apps and add a few more then of course your growth rate is high.
If the growth is so good in the Android store how come at the end of the month it will be a further 11,000 apps BEHIND the Apple store? Goes to show that you can prove anything you like with statistics.
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