Apps drive handset sales.  Revenue from paid apps drive app creation.
A Virtuous Cycle.

Android will get there when the billing issue (people won't opt into
Google Checkout) is addressed.

On May 14, 3:05 pm, Josh Steiner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some more numbers for you all:
>
> http://mashable.com/2009/05/14/apple-iphone-apps-profit/
>
> Short version: not that much.
>
> Long version: Anywhere between $20 and $45 million; when you count in
> LSVP’s approximation that the ratio of free to paid apps, is somewhere
> between 1:15 and 1:40, and O’Reilly’s estimate that the mean price for
> paid apps is $2.65. Multiply (Multiply reviews) these numbers and you
> get revenue of $70-$160 million; Apple’s 30%, which is how much they
> get from each sold application puts their chunk of the cake at $20-45
> million.
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