I've been thrilled and surprised with my modest results in the Android
Market for my photography geek app ("Sun Surveyor") so far; in the
Amazon App Store, though, when my sales recently tripled(!) to 3
copies sold, it was listed as #10 in the Top Paid Apps for
Photography, a week or so ago. Which, if this is a list based on
sales, means that many apps had not sold many copies at all, other
than the very top. I think it's starting to pick up though. For a
while there were no downloads of my free version, and now there's been
a few, but it's extremely low compared to 1000s in the Android Market.
I think what others have said is acute, the Amazon App Store is
probably going to mainly be used by the most involved of Android users
at the moment, so if your apps are popular with that demographic, then
they are more likely to purchase via Amazon, since they're more likely
to have it installed. Just think, how many phones have the Amazon App
Store installed on them? Cut out the rest of the world, except for
the US, and then take a segment of that population, subtracting a
carrier or two. It's a much smaller potential user base.
The Amazon App Store seems to have a big investment behind it, with
the free app per day, etc. It remains to be seen if there's going to
be an consumer anxiety if it soon becomes revealed that the Amazon App
Store will be on devices which the Android market is not, and vice
versa. As a consumer, I want my purchases on a platform to follow me
to whatever device I have. If this is not the case with Android/
Amazon it'll be interesting to see how consumer behavior changes, and
what the overall response is. I can't see it killing the platform,
but if purchases become inaccessible because Android device X isn't
playing nice (or chooses not to) with google, it's not going to be a
pleasant consumer experience IMO.
On Jun 4, 10:50 am, sblantipodi <[email protected]> wrote:
> As title,
> my apps sells quite good on the android market, haven't sold anything
> on the amazon appstore and you?
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