25,000 iPhone Apps – Pricing And Popularity Trends
In January, Apple announced it had launched over 15,000 applications on its iPhone. In two months, that number has already jumped to 25,000.
VentureBeat used public information and findings from 148Apps to analyze pricing and popularity trends.
• The most popular pricepoint is $0.99, not free. (Interesting!) Some 10,274 applications cost $0.99 versus 6,044 that are gratis. (Most developers would have to sell a ton of applications to make any real money; it’s definitely a labor of love for most developers.)
• Unlike the BlackBerry applications, which cost a minimum of $2.99, 80 percent of iPhone apps are $1.99 or less.
• Apparently there is a market for expensive applications: Apps priced at $9.99 are the sixth-most popular on the iPhone (there are now 700 of them).
• Games are the most popular type of app (5,263), followed by entertainment (3,497), and books (2,405). The least popular? Weather.
How much would it cost to buy every single iPhone application? About $71,442.69.
Photo by Niels van Eck.
Jaclyn on March 9th, 2009 11:44 am
While i think it’s a good idea that they continue to come up with more thing’s that the cell phone can do, and more thing’s that people can access from their cell phone…i still think it’s outrageous that some of the apps can cost up to $10.00 per app…why would anyone want to spend that kind of money for a very miniature version of a game to play on their cell phone especially when money today is so tight
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