Comments on: Which mobile OS’s apps make most money? Surprise! It’s BlackBerry

By: independantdeveloper

independantdeveloper — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:20:17 +0000

These $$$ stats are completely bs. I’ve developed numerous apps for ios, android and bb and getting an app to make that amount per month is noway an easy chore. Absolutely no way an avg bb app is bringing in $128 ($3853/30 days) a day. Do they mean per year?

I’d love to know which apps actually factored into their stats and actually how they managed to get financial stats on them.

By: Intellct

Intellct — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:15:02 +0000

Perfect answer for my country companies who are still behind time

By: AB

AB — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:40:16 +0000

This is a great article for anyone who think that iOS and Android are the only platforms that developers are making money with right now. Hopefully information like this will bring more developers to Blackberry. Thanks for the information!

By: David Pat

David Pat — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:26:02 +0000

Average money per app is like saying that Bestbuy makes more money than Walmart because their average customer spends more in 1 trip…

By: Kevin Fitchard

Kevin Fitchard — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:23:02 +0000

Hi John,

If I recall my statistics classes correctly, this is pretty standard analysis when you’re trying to come up with a better picture of average performance. You lop off the top and bottom. They didn’t appear to lop off the bottom in this case (which would have been $0), but the principle seems sound.

If I’m a dev and wanted to support myself by making apps that I know have little chance of reaching the top of the download charts, data includes blockbuster apps like Angry Birds, wouldn’t do me much good. You may be right that the top apps on iOS do better than BB, but that’s not what Vision Mobile is trying to look at here.

By: John Molloy

John Molloy — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:26:15 +0000

Not sure why extracting the top 5% of apps which would “skew the results” works. Looks like someone is trying to find an excuse to promote Blackberry to me.

“Hey we can make it look good if we ignore the top 5% of apps.”

By: Kevin Fitchard

Kevin Fitchard — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:53:09 +0000

You’re saying we should look at RIM’s own stats for insight on its developer trends? And three out of four dentists who chew gum recommend you pick…

By: cumiastowski

cumiastowski — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:16:36 +0000

How can you start this article with such a completely effed up understanding. RIM is gaining developers. Not rocket science to see this. Look at the latest app world stats for Pete’s sake. Stop publishing completely wrong info.

By: Nick Valentino

Nick Valentino — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:03:05 +0000

People have been saying that for AT LEAST the past 3 years.

By: Kevin Fitchard

Kevin Fitchard — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:14:29 +0000

The problem is if you do develop a great app, you would muck it up by using Airpush, turning your app into what is essentially a spambot.