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Distimo Report July 2010

Friday, July 30th, 2010

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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.

You can download the report for free here.

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Distimo Report – February 2010 – Worldwide Apple App Store

Monday, March 22nd, 2010
It is our pleasure to release our monthly Distimo Report, based on February 2010 data. Distimo Report Logo
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.

You can download the report here.

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Distimo Report – December 2009

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
It is our pleasure to release our monthly Distimo Report, based on December 2009 data. Distimo Report Logo
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.

You can download the report here.

This report was covered on TechCrunch here.

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Distimo And Skyhook Report November 2009: Location Based Applications

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

november_reportEvery month we publish a report highlighting trends in the different mobile app stores. For the November Report, which is now available, Distimo partnered with Skyhook Wireless. The combination of Skyhook’s location based application list with Distimo’s app store metrics gives unique insights in these types of applications.

The report covers the Apple App Store, Google Android Market and RIM’s BlackBerry App World.

New and noteworthy:

1. The Apple App Store has the largest proportion of paid location based applications (57%), with BlackBerry coming second (49%) and Google Android Market third (21%).

2. Prices of Maps & Navigation applications on BlackBerry App World decreased from $16.13 in September to $13.74 (-14.8%) in November, while the average prices on Apple App Store and Google Android Market remained fairly stable despite the announcement and introduction of free Google Maps Navigation.

3. The average price of location based applications on BlackBerry App World is about twice as high as on the Apple App Store ($14.37 compared to $7.34).

4. Besides the Navigation and Travel categories, most location based applications are published in News & Weather and Social, such as AccuWeather, foursquare and Loopt.

The report was covered by GigaOM here.

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