That Gartner "analyst" pretty much just made all his numbers up. To prove the point, he claims 16 million non iphone apps downloaded. Lets look at just Android:
http://www.androlib.com/appstats.aspx 24000 apps in their db http://www.androlib.com/appstatsdownloads.aspx 0.8% of apps have >250k downloads 0.008 * 24000 * 250000 = 48 million. And that is less than 1% of the apps in the market. I'm not claiming any authoritative number, but just showing that the numbers they cite are off by ridiculous orders of magnitude that the whole report is worthless headline trolling. -Josh On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Ed <[email protected]> wrote: > Just read this article by a mobile phone developer on > androidandme.com, which pretty much sums up many of the criticisms > people have had about the Android Market since its launch... > > > http://androidandme.com/2010/01/news/how-does-a-developer-showoff-on-the-android-market-place/ > > The points in simple bullets: > -Need an online storefront > -Need sync of Market data for users upgrading phones (*surprising to > me--does this really not exist?) > -Better search function > -Need a Promo Code feature > -Allow paid apps in all markets > -Better categorization/ranking system > > The article points out that Gartner says "Apple is now responsible for > 99.4% of mobile app sales." Wow! Not sure what to say about that, > other than Google and friends need to put their thinking caps on. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-discuss%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > > > >--
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