{"id":196327,"date":"2010-01-18T21:29:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T02:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/18\/apple-responsible-for-99-4-of-mobile-app-sales-in-2009\/"},"modified":"2010-01-18T21:29:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T02:29:38","slug":"apple-responsible-for-99-4-of-mobile-app-sales-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/196327","title":{"rendered":"Apple responsible for 99.4% of mobile app sales in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2010\/01\/apple-responsible-for-994-of-mobile-app-sales-in-2009.ars?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss\"><br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.arstechnica.com\/assets\/2009\/09\/ipod_touch_money_ars-thumb-230x130-8337-f.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n        <!--body--><\/p>\n<p>The latest report from market research firm Gartner suggests that mobile apps are big business, and that business should only grow in the next few years. According to Gartner&#8217;s numbers, Apple completely owns this market, grabbing almost every one of the 4.2 billion dollars spent on mobile apps in 2009. Based on Gartner&#8217;s estimates and our own analysis, Apple could hold on to at least two-thirds of the market if current sales trends hold for 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Apple first opened the App Store in July 2008, along with the launch of the iPhone 3G and the release of iPhone OS 2.0. Sales were brisk, with <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2008\/12\/app-store-reaches-300-million-download-mark.ars\" title=\"Ars Technica: App Store reaches 300 million download mark\">300 million apps<\/a> sold by December. After the holidays, that number had jumped to <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2009\/01\/iphone-app-store-half-a-billion-served.ars\" title=\"Ars Technica: iPhone App Store: half a billion served\">500 million<\/a>. Earlier this month, Apple announced that sales had topped 3 billion; that means iPhone users downloaded 2.5 billion apps in 2009 alone. Gartner&#8217;s figures show another 16 million apps that could come from other platform&#8217;s recently opened app stores, giving Apple at least 99.4 percent of all mobile apps sold for the year.<\/p>\n<p>          <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2010\/01\/apple-responsible-for-994-of-mobile-app-sales-in-2009.ars?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss\" title=\"Click here to continue reading this article\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.arstechnica.com\/mt-static\/plugins\/ArsTheme\/images\/read-more.jpg\" alt=\"Read the rest of this article...\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/0ZrxfnY90hRzgI1q2Us1KwYhQVQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/0ZrxfnY90hRzgI1q2Us1KwYhQVQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/0ZrxfnY90hRzgI1q2Us1KwYhQVQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/0ZrxfnY90hRzgI1q2Us1KwYhQVQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=jb4jxN8qH0k:9NeL3JuFt3c:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?i=jb4jxN8qH0k:9NeL3JuFt3c:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=jb4jxN8qH0k:9NeL3JuFt3c:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?i=jb4jxN8qH0k:9NeL3JuFt3c:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=jb4jxN8qH0k:9NeL3JuFt3c:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=jb4jxN8qH0k:9NeL3JuFt3c:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/arstechnica\/index\/~4\/jb4jxN8qH0k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~r\/arstechnica\/index\/~3\/jb4jxN8qH0k\/apple-responsible-for-994-of-mobile-app-sales-in-2009.ars\" >Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest report from market research firm Gartner suggests that mobile apps are big business, and that business should only grow in the next few years. 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