Posts Tagged ‘Distimo Report’
Friday, July 30th, 2010
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.
Tags: app store report, Distimo Report
Posted in Android Market, Apple App Store for iPad, Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World, Distimo Report, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog, Windows Marketplace | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Yesterday at the WWDC, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs announced the new iPhone, along with its new platform iOS4 (formerly known as iPhone OS 4). While talking about the ‘i’ platform, Jobs mentioned that the Apple App Store now has over 225,000 apps available for download while 15,000 new apps are received every week.
One of the ‘app’ highlights was the announcement that the iBooks application, which is now only available to iPad users, gets an update and will become available to iPhone and iPod users. The updated iBooks application will offer the possibility to share books across all iOS4 based devices. Book sharing across the iPhone, iPod and iPad will be extended with the sync of place, bookmarks and notes attached to the books. Another part of the update includes that iBooks users now can read PDF files just the way like they would read normal iBooks books.
Besides the addition of the iBooks application, the popular Facebook application Farmville will be available in the app store later this month. Zynga’s Farmville will feature in app purchase support, along with push notifications about events happening at your farm. The 35 million daily players will be able to play Farmville even when they are outside or on the way.
Tags: app store, app store news, apple, Apple App Store for iPhone, Distimo Report, mobile market
Posted in Apple App Store for iPad, Apple App Store for iPhone | 1 Comment »
Friday, April 30th, 2010
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).
You can download the report for free here.
Tags: Distimo Report, ipad report
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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
| It is our pleasure to release our monthly Distimo Report, based on February 2010 data. |
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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.
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Tags: app store report, Apple App Store for iPhone, Distimo Report, worldwide app prices
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
| It is our pleasure to release our monthly Distimo Report, based on January 2010 data. |
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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.
You can download the report here. |
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Tags: app store report games, Distimo Report
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
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It is our pleasure to release our monthly Distimo Report, based on December 2009 data.
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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.
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| This report was covered on TechCrunch here. |
Tags: Android Market, app store report, Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World, Distimo Report, Nokia Ovi Store, Windows Marketplace
Posted in Android Market, Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World, Distimo Report, Nokia Ovi Store, Windows Marketplace | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Every 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.
Tags: app store report, Distimo Report, location based applications, skyhook wireless
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Every month we publish a report highlighting trends in the different mobile app stores. Distimo Report for October 2009 is now available.
The report covers the Apple App Store, Google Android Market and RIM’s BlackBerry App World.
You can download the free report here.
New and noteworthy:
- Developers publishing applications in multiple application stores price their applications lowest on Apple’s App Store.
- The same application titles are priced significantly higher on BlackBerry App World and Google Android Market than on the Apple App Store.
- On the Apple App Store, Games and Social Networking applications have benefited most from in-app purchasing for free applications.
- BlackBerry App World prices have been increasing since mid-October, from $5.11 to $5.60 (+9.6%), while pricing on the Apple App Store and Google Android Market have remained fairly stable.
Developpublishing applications in multiple application stores price their applications lowest on Apple’s App Store.
The same application titles are priced significantly higher on BlackBerry App World and Google Android Market than on the Apple
App Store.
On the Apple App Store, Games and Social Networking applications have benefited most from in-app purchasing for free applications.
BlackBerry App World prices have been increasing since mid-October, from $5.11 to $5.60 (+9.6%), while pricing on the Apple App
Store and Google Android Market have remained fairly stable
The report was covered by TechCrunch here.
Tags: Android Market, Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World, cross store developers, Distimo Report, in-app purchasing
Posted in Android Market, Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World, Distimo Report | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
We publish a monthly report to highlight trends in the different mobile app stores. The Distimo Report August 2009 is now available.
The report covers the Apple App Store and Google Android Market. Two versions of the report are available: one covering the United States, and one covering the United Kingdom.
You can download your free copy of the report here.
If you would like to distribute the report, please use this link.
The report covers the Apple App Store and Google Android Market. Two versions of the report are available: one covering the United States, and one covering the United Kingdom.
You can download the free report here.
New and noteworthy:
- On the Apple App Store, Navigation & Travel and Social Networking apps were more popular than on Android Market, while on Android Entertainment and News & Weather applications were more popular.
- The overlap between countries is higher for Android Market than for Apple App Store: in the Apple App Store the available content varies more per individual country.
- The higher total price of Apple’s Top 100 Reference category was mainly caused by the higher amount of apps priced higher than $20. Android Market had relatively many applications priced between $4 and $10 in this category.
- The average price of an app in Apple’s Overall Top 100 was $2.92, compared to $4.16 in Apple’s Reference category.
The UK report was covered by TechCrunch Europe.
Tags: Distimo Report
Posted in Android Market, Apple App Store for iPhone, Distimo Report | 5 Comments »
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
We publish monthly reports to highlight trends in the different mobile app stores. The Distimo Report – July 2009 is now available and covers the Apple App Store and Google Android Market. Starting this month, we will report on cross store trends.
You can download this report free of charge.
The new findings in this report are:
- A negative trend can be identified in the total price of the Overall Top 100 for the Apple App Store. This however was influenced by the turn-by-turn navigation apps MobileNavigator Europe and MobileNavigator America, which were both published by NAVIGON AG. Turn-by-turn navigation apps are still popular.
- Pricing of applications in the Apple App Store and Android Market is quite similar, except for the Reference category which has a much higher average price on Google Android Market.
- The most popular games on Android Market cost between $0.99 and $5.95, with most going for $2.99, while for the Apple App store, most are priced very low ($0.99), and a few higher at $6.99- $9.99
- Games are still the most popular applications in the Apple App Store, with slightly more apps in the monthly paid Top 15 than in the free Top 15.
- Classic games on Android Market are more popular than in the Apple App Store, with even 3 out of the 15 most popular games for Android being emulators. These types of emulators are not allowed in the Apple App Store.
- Tools are very popular paid apps for Android, with 7 apps from the application category bvery different, there are no productivity/utilities apps for Apple in the overall Top 15.
Tags: android market report, app store analytics, apple app store report, Distimo Report
Posted in Android Market, Apple App Store for iPhone, Distimo Report | 2 Comments »
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