Android Market Has the Most Free and Cheapest Mobile Phone Apps, Tops Competing Apps Stores
While Apple’s iTunes Market is under siege by a group of hackers, analytics company Distimo released its latest survey showing Google’s Android Market enjoying a wide lead as top app store for most free apps on catalog. The Android Market also takes the cake for having the most affordable pay-to-use apps. Sure, Apple’s app store may still be the most profitable and have the most number of apps but the Android Market is enjoying a meteoric rise. More and more people are opting to buy Android OS-enabled smartphones because majority of Android apps are either free or sell for very cheap prices. See Destimo’s survey chart and you will understand why the Android Market is becoming more attractive than other app stores.
Destimo Survey Shows Android Market has the most free apps
I sure am very happy to see that, out of the 60,000 apps at the Android Market, 57% of them are free! It is so surprising that Android developers are more unselfish than their Apple counterparts. Only 28% of iTunes Apps are free. Blackberry App World has about the same with 26% of its catalog downloadable for free. These two competitors are still far behind Android Market’s generous stable of free applications. No wonder, more prescient technology experts are predicting rapid growth for Android OS-powered handsets in the next 3 years because of the fact that most Android app developers are opting to give away their work and earn money in some other way like in-app advertising. Google is the king of advertising and the company is preaching that ads provide an alternative income. Traditional brickstore style of selling a widget like Apple does with iTunes Market is being spurned by many Android’s developers.
While some Android developers still opt to sell their apps, Destimo proudly reports that the Android Market still sells the cheapest apps compared to all other app stores. Android apps sells for an average of $3.27 which is way lower than Apple’s median average of $4.65. Once more programmers join the burgeoning rise of the Android platform, expect Android Market prices to go lower. Right now, there are more developers for the iPhone platform but some of them may soon shift to creating Android apps because its SDK is open-source and offers more creative freedom. Apple’s Cocoa environment for iOS is ruthlessly restrictive.
The only other serious contender for having lots of free apps is Palm’s App Store which has 34%. HP now owns Palm but again, webOS is a proprietary system and therefore no threat to Google’s Android. The best environment for mobile computing in the future will most likely be of open-source nature. Apple today is enjoying much success in their closed-environment policy for smart phones but Google’s Android will ultimately beat it.
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