{"id":359349,"date":"2010-02-24T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5479298"},"modified":"2010-02-24T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T21:40:00","slug":"android-app-store-is-57-free-compared-to-apples-25-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/359349","title":{"rendered":"Android App Store Is 57% Free Compared to Apple&#8217;s 25% [Data]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/app_store_free_vs_paid.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/500x_app_store_free_vs_paid.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #appstore\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/appstore\/\">App store<\/a> analytics firm Distimo recently released a bunch of juicy info about the major mobile <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #appstores\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/appstores\/\">app stores<\/a>, and the results are pretty interesting. For one, Android has a much higher proportion of free apps.<\/p>\n<p>Apple and BlackBerry are pretty close with their app stores, offering free apps making up 25% and 24% of their respective stores. Android more than doubles that number with 57%. Of course, with the size discrepancy between the stores, Apple still offers up more free apps than Android&#8217;s entire store, but it&#8217;s still interesting to see the relative differences.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/app_store_price_comparison.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/500x_app_store_price_comparison.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>Surprisingly, the number of free apps doesn&#8217;t drop the average price paid for paid apps down in android. Apple&#8217;s average paid price is $3.62, while Android&#8217;s is $3.27. BlackBerry, on the other hand, shoots way up with an $8.26 average. This is due to price variations across the app stores for the same app. IM+, for example, is $4.99 in Apple&#8217;s store and a whopping $29.99 in BlackBerry&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some other data about store sizes (spoiler alert: Apple&#8217;s is way bigger than anyone else&#8217;s), but this price and spending data was the new stuff to us. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/distimo\/distimo-mobile-world-congress-2010-presentation-mobile-application-stores-state-of-play\">Distimo<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/the_truth_about_mobile_application_stores.php\">ReadWriteWeb<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=65bdcfc20dd2705aec0796b8e17d5377&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=65bdcfc20dd2705aec0796b8e17d5377&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=Ok1sCW3xs90:2VBk3rbpkRs:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=Ok1sCW3xs90:2VBk3rbpkRs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=Ok1sCW3xs90:2VBk3rbpkRs:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=Ok1sCW3xs90:2VBk3rbpkRs:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=Ok1sCW3xs90:2VBk3rbpkRs:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=Ok1sCW3xs90:2VBk3rbpkRs:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/Ok1sCW3xs90\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>App store analytics firm Distimo recently released a bunch of juicy info about the major mobile app stores, and the results are pretty interesting. For one, Android has a much higher proportion of free apps. Apple and BlackBerry are pretty close with their app stores, offering free apps making up 25% and 24% of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359349","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\/5459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}