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The headline seems to make an assertion about $2B paid to developers. However, it appears that the $2B number is an asymco estimate. It is not clear how they a
by credo 16y ago
The headline seems to make an assertion about $2B paid to developers.
However, it appears that the $2B number is an asymco estimate. It is not clear how they arrived at this estimate. Does anyone know how the they arrived at the $2B number ?
[edit: Thanks for the explanation, Trotsky. His post didn't mention any download numbers.
However, it looks like he discussed download numbers in a different post. Given those download numbers, his estimates make sense - of course, with all the caveats that you've outlined]
- trotsky 16y agoHe took the June 2010 WWDC numbers of $1B to developers ($1.43B gross) and 5B downloads over the first two years of the app store to come up with $0.29 revenue per download over the lifetime of the app store. Then he applied that $0.29 per download to new download figures. This assumes that the percentage of free downloads or no cost upgrades has stayed static over the app store lifetime.