{"id":199352,"date":"2010-01-19T08:27:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T13:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5451706"},"modified":"2010-01-19T08:27:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T13:27:11","slug":"apple-dominated-with-nearly-100-of-mobile-app-sales-in-2009-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/199352","title":{"rendered":"Apple Dominated With Nearly 100% of Mobile App Sales in 2009 [Apple]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Say what you will about platforms, but in 2009, Apple’s App Store<\/a> absolutely pwnd the paid mobile app space—selling 99.4% of the $4.2 billion market single-handedly, according to ars technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All this data is based upon research by Gartner, who claims that, should sale trends continue, Apple could retain 2\/3 of the paid mobile app market into 2010 (amidst growing competition from Android, Palm, RIM, etc). Of course, if Apple releases an app-wielding tablet, market share could error greatly in their favor again.<\/p>\n

(Note: there’s some discrepancy in these numbers, as Engadget<\/a> counters ars’ 99.4% number crunching<\/a> with a 97.5%. Whatever, either way, it’s enough of the market to mean every other retailer was moot in 2009.<\/em>)[Ars<\/a> and Gartner<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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Say what you will about platforms, but in 2009, Apple’s App Store absolutely pwnd the paid mobile app space—selling 99.4% of the $4.2 billion market single-handedly, according to ars technica. All this data is based upon research by Gartner, who claims that, should sale trends continue, Apple could retain 2\/3 of the paid mobile app […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}