Android apps are harder to buy at the moment for a lot of people. The list of countries where Android phones have been selling aren't the same countries that have access to paid apps. HTC's 1 million Magic phones have been sold entirely outside the US where it is only just now bwing launched as a the MyTouch3G by T-mobile.
Fortunately, an Android phone user can buy an app directly from the developer and by-pass the market entirely. Or root the phone and load an alternate version of the OS entirely (Cyanogen Android, anyone?)
Name
· 3 months ago
i have a android phone. Its simple really . The iphone has been out a lot longer. paid apps have been tested and suspect there is less quality free apps available in the apple store. I won't get a paid app when a free app is just as good or better. I have a few paid apps. Ussally its after using a lite app. I am NOT going to waste my money on a junk app. I will only buy apps that is recommend by a friend who I had a chance to try before. hand.
dayonurudeen
· 3 months ago
I enjoy my blackberry ;).
Name
· 3 months ago
It will interesting to see how this data changes as more android phones hit the market. Also I am curious on the free versus paid split in the stores themselves. Does Apple just currently have a higher percentage of paid apps?
joemccann
· 3 months ago
Hmm, or the fact that iPhone has a 70% market share and loads more apps than Android. With all due respect, let's put some truth to the numbers with CONTEXT of which you're writing. It's like saying that 2 million more teenagers smoked pot in 2009 than in 1999, without mentioning the increase in the TOTAL number of teenagers was 10 million.
Adam Saunders
· 3 months ago
It's an average so presuming they took the market size into account.
It's much more likely because android users are used to getting good apps for free. I think it would also be fair to say that the opensource OS is more likely to attract the opensource app developers.
joemccann
· 3 months ago
Totally agree...I have the G1 and am an Open Standards Developer...being able to hack and mash it up, from as deep as the OS level is appealing to me...plus, Google makes solid apps that integrate well into the phone (e.g. Google Voice).
Nick Stamoulis
· 3 months ago
Mac users are accustomed to paying for items. Android users already come with a great deal of free apps when you buy an Android based phone.
Adam Saunders
· 3 months ago
You could imagine the inspiration of most iPhone and most Android developers being very different. I can see whilst iPhone developers are into the fiscal status of their market, the Android developer is motivated by a challenge of download ranking and feedback compared to their competing opensource projects.
Name
· 3 months ago
Plus let's not forget that the majority of the iPhone advertising in the last year has been, "there is an app for that" Again let's see how the game changes when there is a bit more critical mass from Android OEMs
Burnman
· 3 months ago
Since I do not have an iPhone I have no idea what the numbers are like, but it would be interesting to see the number of paid vs. free applications available for both operating systems. It may simply be that there are more free applications for the Android OS than for the iPhone.
I wouldn't buy an iPhone anyway. I don't like the idea of having to send a phone to the manufacturer to change the battery.
Sam
· 3 months ago
I would buy paid apps for the Android if Google hadn't dropped support for Maestro debit cards :@
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Fortunately, an Android phone user can buy an app directly from the developer and by-pass the market entirely. Or root the phone and load an alternate version of the OS entirely (Cyanogen Android, anyone?)
It's much more likely because android users are used to getting good apps for free. I think it would also be fair to say that the opensource OS is more likely to attract the opensource app developers.
I wouldn't buy an iPhone anyway. I don't like the idea of having to send a phone to the manufacturer to change the battery.