It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Report.
This report covers the Apple App Store for iPad, the Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World (worldwide), Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile for July 2010 in the United States. The major findings are:
The average price of the 100 most popular applications in Google Android Market and Palm App Catalog is higher than the average price of the entire catalogue of applications.
While the average price of all applications is only 16% higher in the Apple App Store for iPad than in the Apple App Store for iPhone, the average price of the 100 most popular applications is nearly three times as high in the Apple App Store for iPad.
More than 60% of applications are priced below or equal to $2.00 in the Apple App Store for iPhone, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store and Palm App Catalog.The proportion of applications priced below or equal to $2.00 is much lower in the Apple App Store for iPad and Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
Paid applications are priced lowest in Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store and Palm App Catalog.
Google Android Market has the largest share of free applications available; 60%, representing an increase of 3% since May 2010 when it was 57%.The share of free applications is smallest on Windows Marketplace for Mobile (22%), followed by the Apple App Store for iPad (26%) and BlackBerry App World (26%).
The top three cross-store publishers that publish applications in multiple stores are Gameloft, Electronic Arts and Handmark, Inc.
In the Apple App Store for iPad, BlackBerry App World and Windows Marketplace for Mobile, the respective companies that run each application store, (Apple, Research In Motion and Microsoft) are the top publishers in their own store with only a limited number of applications. Clickgamer.com and Offscreen publish many popular games in the Apple App Store for iPhone and Nokia Ovi Store making them the top publishers in these stores.
The top grossing publisher in the Apple App Store for iPhone is Electronic Arts, which publishes free and paid applications as well as applications with in-app purchases.
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It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Report.
This report covers the Apple App Store for iPad and iPhone (with specific focus on in-app purchases), as well as BlackBerry App World (Worldwide), Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile for June 2010 in the United States. The major findings are:
The percentage of applications with in-app purchases is significantly higher in the Apple App Store for iPad (10%) than in the Apple App Store for iPhone (2%). The Games and Social Networking categories in both stores have the highest proportion of applications with in-app purchases available.
The most successful free applications that monetized using in-app purchases this month in the Apple App Store for iPhone are MobiTV (MobiTV), ESPN 2010 FIFA World Cup (ESPN) and Tap Fish (BayView Labs).
The most successful paid applications that monetized using in-app purchases this month in the Apple App Store for iPhone are Guitar Hero (Activision Publishing, Inc.), TomTom U.S.A. (TomTom International BV) and Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies II (Activision Publishing, Inc.).
Mirroring the Distimo report covering May 2010, Pages and iBooks, published by Apple Inc, are again the number one paid and free applications on the Apple App Store for iPad, respectively.
Three out of the ten most popular applications in the Apple App Store for iPhone were published by Electronic Arts.
Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite for iPad entered the top 10 highest ranked paid applications chart in the 6th position. It was the
top grossing application in the Apple App Store for iPad after Pages by Apple Inc.
Nine out of the ten most popular paid applications on the Apple App Store for iPhone are Games, however only two out of the ten most popular free applications are Games. In the Nokia Ovi Store, seven out of ten of the most popular paid applications are Games, while only three out of ten of the most popular free applications are Games.
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Report.
This report covers the Apple App Store for iPad, the Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World (Worldwide), Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile for May 2010 in the United States. The major findings are:
More than 50% of applications are priced below or equal to $2.00 in all stores, with the exception of BlackBerry App World and Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
The average price of all paid applications and the 100 most popular paid applications in the Apple App Store for iPad ($4.65) is higher than in the Apple App Store for iPhone ($4.01). However, the average price of the 100 top grossing applications is higher on the Apple App Store for iPhone.
Google Android Market has the largest share of free applications (57%) and Windows Marketplace for Mobile has the smallest (22%).
Twitter, Inc. published their native application in the Apple App Store and Google Android Market, becoming the monthly number 10 free application in the Apple App Store for iPhone, and the number 6 free application in Google Android Market.
Nine out of the ten most popular free applications and eight out of ten most popular paid applications in the Apple App Store for iPhone are games.
In the competitive e-reader market, both the iBooks application by Apple, Inc., and the Kindle application by Amazon.com are ranked among the 10 most popular free applications in the Apple App Store for iPad. Apple’s application is ranked number one however, and Amazon’s application is ranked number ten.
Five out of the ten most popular free applications in Windows Marketplace for Mobile are published by Microsoft Corporation.
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Report.
This report covers the Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile for April 2010, with additional focus on iPhone applications in the Apple App Store during the period November 2009 – April 2010. The major findings are:
In the Apple App Store, paid applications in the Top Overall, Games, Business and Entertainment categories stay in these categories for 27, 39, 59 and 38 days on average, respectively. Free applications stay in the Top 100 for a significantly shorter time in the Top Overall, Games and Business categories, with 19, 21 and 39 days on average, respectively. In contrast to these categories, free applications in the Entertainment category stay in the Top 100 for a slightly longer period of time than paid applications; 43 days compared to 38 days.
In the Apple App Store, the majority of paid applications that have been in the Top 100 Overall during the entire period of November 2009 – April 2010 fall into the Games and Entertainment categories. The paid applications that have been in the Top 5 for the longest period of time are Doodle Jump (140 days), RedLaser (73 days) and Skee-Ball (68 days). The paid application that has been number one for the longest period of time is Skee-Ball (24 days). The free applications that have been in the Top 5 for the longest period of time are Facebook (12 days) and Paper Toss (7 days).
The majority of the 10 highest ranked paid applications were published in the following categories in April 2010: Productivity (Apple App Store for iPad), Games (Apple App Store for iPhone), Themes (BlackBerry App World), News & Weather (Google Android Market), Games (Nokia Ovi Store), Productivity & Utilities (Palm App Catalog) and in Games (Windows Marketplace for Mobile).
The majority of the 10 highest ranked free applications were published in the following categories in April 2010: Games and Entertainment (Apple App Store for iPad), Games (Apple App Store for iPhone), Music & Audio/IM & Social Networking/Themes (BlackBerry App World), Tools and Social (Google Android Market), Games and Entertainment (Nokia Ovi Store), Games (Palm App Catalog) and Social Networks/News & Weather (Windows Marketplace for Mobile).
In April 2010, the highest ranked paid iPad application in the Apple App Store was Pages, followed by GoodReader for iPad, and Pinball HD. The highest ranked free iPad application in the Apple App Store was iBooks, followed by The Solitaire and Break HD Free.
It is our pleasure to release our latest Distimo Report, based on April 1 – April 26 data.
This monthly report focuses on the Apple App Store for the iPad and iPhone in the United States. The major findings are:
The number of applications in the Apple App Store for iPad has grown to 4,870 since the release of the iPad on April 3rd. In the last two weeks alone, the number of iPad applications has grown by 32.7%.
The largest application category on the iPad is Games with 1,577 titles (32%), followed by Entertainment and Books with 455 and 396 titles, respectively.
Of the 186,414 applications in the Apple App Store for iPhone, 73% are paid, while 80% of the 4,870 applications in the Apple App Store for iPad are paid.
An application in the Apple App Store for iPhone costs $3.82 on average, as opposed to $4.67 in the Apple App Store for iPad.
On the Apple App Store for iPad, Medical and Finance applications are the most expensive at $42.11 and $18.48 on average, respectively. This is significantly more than the average price for applications in these categories on the Apple App Store for iPhone ($10.74 and $5.74).
It is our pleasure to release our monthly Distimo Report, based on February 2010 data.
This monthly report focuses on the worldwide Apple App Store. The major findings are:
The most popular applications are the most expensive in Europe ($3.86 average), and the least expensive applications are in North America ($2.43) and Asia ($2.69).
Overall and worldwide, prices of the most popular applications have decreased 15% on average during the period, December 1, 2009 through February 28, 2010. The largest relative price decrease occurred in Australia where prices dropped 27% from $3.77 to $2.74.
The most popular applications in the Navigation category are the most expensive in Europe. This is due to the large number of turn-by-turn navigation applications covering different regions in Europe (e.g. TomTom Western Europe, Eastern Europe, UK and Ireland).
Games is the most popular category in Australia and North America (USA, Canada and Mexico), where 51% and 39% of the applications respectively, ranked in the top overall category are games.
It is our pleasure to release our monthly Distimo Report, based on January 2010 data.
This monthly report focuses on Games in Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store and Windows Marketplace for Mobile in the United States. The major findings are:
Games on Windows Marketplace for Mobile and BlackBerry App World are most expensive at $4.91 and $4.60 (on average) respectively.
The Games category on the Apple App Store with the most titles available is Puzzle.
Games published in the Role Playing category on the Apple App Store are most expensive, averaging $7.96 per game. Most other game categories average between $1.30 and $2.60.
22% of the most grossing game titles in the Apple App Store were published in the Action category. The Arcade and Adventure categories were second and third with 12% and 9%, respectively. Interestingly enough, although the Puzzle category is the largest games category in the Apple App Store, relatively few of these games generate enough revenue to be ranked among the top grossing game titles.
We just got back from an amazing week at the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona. This congress organized by the GSM Association saw that more than 49,000 visitors from 200 countries attending this years four-day conference and exhibition.
During the congress, many major players in the mobile industry announced their newest products and plans for the coming year. See our blog for an overview of the most important application store announcements.
On the first day of the congress, we gave a presentation during the Mobile Applications – Innovation vs. Fragmentation session. Our presentation was titled “Mobile Application Stores – State Of Play” and highlights some of our findings on the six largest device manufacturer stores; Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
It is our pleasure to release our monthly Distimo Report, based on December 2009 data.
This report covers five application stores: Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store and Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
This month’s most important findings are:
In Google Android Market, 65% of the publishers are located in the United States, 12% in the United Kingdom, 20% in Europe and 3% in Japan.
Publishers located in Europe price their applications highest with an average of $4.42, which is 49% higher than publishers located in the United States.
Applications in Apple App Store, Google Android Market and Nokia Ovi Store are priced at around $3.50. Windows Marketplace for Mobile and BlackBerry App World are more expensive, averaging $6.99 and $8.26 respectively.
Because of Microsoft’s market validation guidelines and additional fees for distributing applications in more than one country, the number of applications available in some countries is only a small percentage (<5%) of applications available worldwide.
We are glad to announce Ericsson Labs will, from now on, make our monthly reports available for developers via the Ericsson Labs blog. The latest Distimo Report on Location Based Applications, which was made in cooperation with Skyhook Wireless, is already published there.
Ericsson Labs is a concept for open innovation. The site holds APIs, resources, offerings, and various expert commentaries, produced by Ericsson. This assortment provides technologies and communities for developers and makes it easy to get in touch with a variety of experts from different fields.
The cutting-edge technologies available on Labs help developers create new innovative services. These services can then be made available to end-users via any established application store or to other developers at Ericsson Labs via our applications showroom.
Ericsson Labs wants to help mobile developers in creating new innovative services. Via their website API’s, resources and various expert commentaries are provided to developers.
Ericsson Labs
The site also has an applications showroom, where you can try out applications and games made available by both Ericsson Labs and external developers.
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