Google Android Market To Gain Estimated At Only 7% Of What Makes Apple App Store

Apple IOS platform are expected in about 90 percent of dollars spent on mobile devices, emphasizing the advantage of revenue for the iPhone and the iPad Google Android developers.

Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray analyst said Monday he believes that Google's Android Market has generated about 7 percent of gross income the Apple App Store has been since its inception.

"In other words, it appears that Apple has about 85-90% market share in dollars spent on mobile applications," he wrote in a note to investors. "While Google has closed the gap in terms of dollars spent on the application last year and we believe will grow faster than Android smartphones from Apple, we believe Apple is able to maintain 70% dollar share of mobile employees in the next 3-4 years. "

Estimates are obtained by Piper Jaffray numbers released by Apple and Androlib data, an application for Android discovery tool. Munster said he believes the $ 330 million was generated from the Android Market to date, while only 1.3 percent of Android Market applications are paid.

"So, with a total of approximately 6.75 billion downloads to date, we believe, some 90 million of them were paid apps," he said of Android. "By way of comparison, we believe Apple generated $ 4.9 billion in gross sales since inception through September quarter, and 14% of application downloads on App Store overall was paid apps. "

Regarding the average selling price, suggesting Munster are numbers that Android users pay more for a single application, but you pay less for applications in general. The 50 best-paid Android applications have an average retail of $ 3.79, compared with an average retail of $ 2.01 on the Apple App Store.

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Based on the fact that Google has 200 million Android devices in total, Munster estimated that there are an average of 34 applications on each device Android. This compares with about 71 programs each device IOS.

In June, Munster were interviewed developers Annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, and found that 47 percent of respondents to develop applications for Google Android and Apple iPhone OS. But, all 45 developers, said he spoke to the iPhone OS is the easiest platform to develop and to gain the best application.

Stressing the importance of mobile application stores in the future, an estimate is required platforms, like iPhone OS and Android for the production of 14 billion dollars in direct sales in 2012. Although the number of applications downloaded from Android is expected to exceed iPhone OS App Store, Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod touch platform is expected to generate $ 2.86 billion, profits for the year 2016, compared to only $ 1.5 billion Android.