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He has data that indicates 73% of total apps on the store are paid. He then bases his remaining calculations on that paid app number.
by jroes 16y ago
He has data that indicates 73% of total apps on the store are paid. He then bases his remaining calculations on that paid app number.
- wallflower 16y agoCount of total apps paid compared with Count of total apps free has probably very little correlation with app store revenues. The best case (equal sharing) isn't realistic, as we all know that some apps generate hundreds of thousands of dollars over their lifetime. > So the best case of how few apps get to divide that 1.43 Billion dollars over the past 2 years, is 164,000 actual apps
- metageek 16y agoYeah, but he doesn't take into account the fact that 73% of apps do not get 73% of the downloads.
- sorbus 16y agoHowever, paid apps do get all of the purchases. The number of downloads doesn't matter, only income does.
- smokey_the_bear 16y agoFree apps have in app purchases, and ads. Some developers do very well off of free apps.
- sorbus 16y agoAds, until the introduction of iAds, would not have gone through apple, and therefor would not count towards total revenue. You do have a point with in app purchases, but I doubt that they would significantly skew the numbers - they would make them worse for developers of paid apps, in fact. Given the other optimistic decisions the article has when dealing with numbers, I think that ignoring in app purchases fits with it: it's a best case scenario for paid apps. It would be quite interesting to see how much money has been made through in app purchases, though. Not merely anecdotes, but the percentage of free apps which have in app purchases, and the average/median income through in app purchases in those apps.