Apple Nabbed 99.4% of Mobile App Sales in '09
Apple Nabbed 99.4% of Mobile App Sales in '09
Posted 01/19/2010 at 5:22am
| by Paul Lilly
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If market research firm Gartner's numbers are even remotely in the ballpark, then Apple just socked Android in the face, knocked its rival down, and then tea-bagged the little green open-source fanboy. Harsh? You bet, but there's really no way else to describe dominating the $4.2 billion mobile app market by grabbing a 99.4 percent share, leaving just .6 percent for the also-rans.
"As smartphones grow in popularity and application stores become the focus for several players in the value chain, more consumers will experiment with application downloads," Stephanie Baghdassarian, research director at Gartner, said in a statement. "Games remain the number one application, and mobile shopping , social networking, utilities, and productivity tools continue to grow and attract increasing amounts of money."
And most of it falls right into Apple's pocket. Even if Apple should lose some of its market share this year -- and it probably will -- the company still stands to make a king's ransom. According to Gartner, some 4.5 billion mobile apps will be sold in 2010, resulting in $6.8 billion in revenue. Jump ahead to 2013 and Gartner says there will be 21.6 billion apps sold for a total of $29.5 billion in revenue.
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Baer
January 19, 2010 at 6:19pm
Apps, schmaps, my main reason for getting a ohone is for a reliable .... phone, e mail is second amn texting and net lookups ate 3rd. Apps, they are a clear 4th.
There is no way I am goin back to a touch screen or to AT&T. I have used both and both suck. I am so happy without the droped calls. Bye Bye AT&T.
nduanetesh
January 19, 2010 at 10:55am
The biggest failure of articles like this is to pretend that iPhones (and the iPhone OS) are on equal footing in the cell phone market with Android. If you keep a little perspective on this and keep in mind how long iPhones have been on the market and how large and mature their app store is, it's no surprise that iPhone apps are outselling Andoid apps. It's akin to saying that a grown man beat up a baby. Well, duh. It's a baby.
AntiHero
January 19, 2010 at 8:56am
Aside from the statistics being skewed, they are talking about revenue from applications. Android is free for the most part, so of course the iPhone sold more, because there's more for sale, not for the free use and enjoyment.
moberemk
January 19, 2010 at 7:50am
I have to admit to being somewhat skeptical of this; wouldn't the app store sales also include statistics from the iPod touch appstore as well? Because in that case it would be a pretty massive skewing of the statistics right there.
jac_goudsmit
January 19, 2010 at 7:13am
It took until November before the Droid came out and I expect many people who don't want to pay for apps to use a Droid phone exactly for that reason. Just wait a year or two until the number of Android phones and users picks up and then let's evaluate again and take freely (gratis) available open-source apps into account too when judging how popular apps are.
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