Android or iOS: on what platform work?

A new study has shown that the developers of the iOS platform to make their products more than those that create programs for Android, according to eWeek Europe. A well-known analyst of Piper Jaffray Gene Munster (Gene Munster) made the following conclusions on the basis of public Apple applications and data from the portal to search for Android-apps, AndroLib.

According to Munster, Apple's gross revenue from the App Store applications sales since its opening reached $ 4.9 billion in 2008. Of which $ 3.5 billion - is profit developers. For comparison, launched in 2009, the Android Market has brought Google a gross profit of $ 341 million, and the creator of the application received $ 239 million from the sales of their products. That is, developers for Android revenue accounted for only 7% of the profits of developers for iOS.

Android platform is rapidly developing and is very popular. Despite this, according to forecasts of Munster, for another the next 3-4 years it is Apple will receive about 70% of all funds spent by the owners of smartphones on the application. The reason for this difference is that users pay only for 1.3% of all downloaded programs for Android. In the case of iOS nation pays 13.5% of downloads from the iTunes application.

With such a difference in the profitability of platforms Android devices owned 54% of the market of mobile phones, while 28% of Apple's market share. Another 13% retains RIM. It is reported by Millennial Media advertising network.

In turn, an analyst with ABI Research found out that Android users download more applications for their mobile devices (44%) than iGadzhetov fans (31%). Although in this case downloaded applications do not mean paid. Just something to pay for downloaded programs are more iOS users. And they choose the paid applications are twice as likely than users of Android devices.

Activity owners iGadzhetov - the result of deliberate policy of monetization of Apple, which attracts more talented developers. And they in turn create better applications, for which people are willing to pay the money, according to analyst Dan Shey (Dan Shey) from ABI. (In this case, the App Store has more than 500 thousand. programs, and in the Android Market - about 300 thousand).