Comments on: Report: Lock-in From Apple’s Heavy App Users Will Keep It Ahead http://gigaom.com/2011/05/31/report-lock-in-from-apples-heavy-app-users-will-keep-it-ahead/ Thu, 23 May 2013 23:49:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Martin Hill http://gigaom.com/2011/05/31/report-lock-in-from-apples-heavy-app-users-will-keep-it-ahead/#comment-627896 Tue, 31 May 2011 23:28:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=352657#comment-627896 @Cold Water
You mean developers will prefer profit over platform?

- Developer income (2010):  $1.782 billion from iOS App Store vs $102 million from Android Marketplace according to IHS Screendigest.
- Apple captured 82% of the revenue from all app stores in 2010 compared to 5% for Android

And Android devs aren’t making up the differences with lots of free apps supported by advertising either:

- 71% of all app downloads were to iOS devices in 2010 according to ABI Research, 5% to Android.
- iOS users are each worth up to twice as much as Android users to advertisers according to Mobclix

]]> By: Cold Water http://gigaom.com/2011/05/31/report-lock-in-from-apples-heavy-app-users-will-keep-it-ahead/#comment-627859 Tue, 31 May 2011 20:53:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=352657#comment-627859 It’s great, you just have to accept the premise that third-party apps matter, and that the compelling ones will be iOS-exclusive. Developers will favor platform over profit… right?

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