Distimo the innovative app store analytics company, has released their findings for the entire year of 2010. This report covers the Apple App Store for iPad, the Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World (worldwide), Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile for 2010 in the United States.
As far as BlackBerry is concerned, wow. The BlackBerry App World showed triple digit growth in the last year as well, to nearly 18,000 applications and 25,000 applications, respectively. The high download volumes of free applications appear to attract developers to switch to monetization methods other than paid.
- The top 300 free applications in the United States generated, on average, over 3 million downloads each day during December 2010, while only 350,000 paid applications are downloaded daily. However, paid downloads increased almost 30% more than free downloads in the top 300 when comparing the download figures of December 2010 to those of June 2010.
- While the proportion of free applications grew, the average price of the applications also declined. A decline in price can be observed in the 100 most popular applications in the Apple App Store for iPhone, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market and Nokia Ovi Store.
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