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Paid or free app? What kind of app?

• radley 14y ago
  Paid, widgets.
  • Steko 14y ago
    Napkin math says that ICS+ users are 8.75 times more likely to purchase than pre ICS users. Interestingly this is the sort of magnitude of difference we sometimes see between iOS and Android app stores. It would also be interesting to see the number for a fairly popular free app. That could give you an estimate on what percentage of users buys a low end Android phone as a feature phone replacement. Recap on a recent conjecture of mine: the difference in paid content from iOS to Android is primarily due to the number of credit cards Google has on file moreso than the number of people using Android as a feature phone replacement (often claimed to be the big reason for dollar disparity between the stores).
    • radley 14y ago
      We also have an old free app made on sdk 2.3 and backwards compatible to 2.1. That one is 62% 2.x users.
      • Steko 14y ago
        That seems fairly close to the general population breakdown (59.2% are pre-Honeycomb and 62% wouldn't have been too long ago). Just one data point but it seems in line with credit cards being the issue not people who don't use the app store (if it was more of the latter you'd expect something like a 2:1 high end buy ratio for free apps but it looks just like the whole population).