157 app stats

Target Platforms Mobile
1

There are some really useful statistics in there for iPhone developers:

http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/38306/157-App-Stats-you-should-know-about

2

excellent!

3

Great stats!

Here’s another one, based on the apps we made, iPad owners are more willing to pay higher prices than iPhone/Touch users, up to 3x more in our case :slight_smile:

4

Those stats are misleading. Apps sell an average of 100,000 each eh? I think what that meant was ‘statistically, an app is downloaded 100,000 times’ (because free apps move thousands a day with ease).

I’d assure you that 95% of apps that hit the store won’t even make back the initial development fee. (There is validity to the counter-argument that 95% of the apps are crap).

5

I had to double check the source on that stat as well.

http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/37136/The-average-iPhone-app-sells-101024-downloads

So they surveyed 96 developers out of almost 70,000?

At least they mention this:

6

I didn’t check that deep, but that sounds much more like it.

7

The stats are interesting, and it’s nice to be excited every now and again. However after the brief excitement you should probably take a nice grain of salt… :slight_smile: