With the number of smartphone users expected to quadruple by 2013, research firm Yankee Group predicted that users of the devices will download 7 billion apps costing $4.2 billion by that year. But what's happening with mobile app stores now?
- The Apple App Store has 85,000 apps available (source).
- The Google Android marketplace has 10,000 apps available (source).
- The Palm App Catalog has around 125 or 127 apps available (source).
- The Windows Marketplace for Mobile has at least 100 apps available (source).
- Apple's App Store apps have been downloaded over two billion times (source).
- Palm's App Catalog apps have been downloaded some 7.5 million times (source).
- Only 19 percent of Android users download at least one paid application per month, compared to 40 and 50 percent for iPod Touch and iPhone owners (source)
- iPhone/iPod Touch owners, an average, spend $5 to buy five paid apps every month. (source)
- The average price of apps is expected to rise to $2.37 in the next five years (source).
- There are some $200 million worth of applications sold in Apple’s App Store store every month, or about $2.4 billion a year (source).
- The Android marketplace brings in about $5 million a month or on a run rate to do $60 million in a year (source).