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App Store shoppers downloading 2.2 million apps per day
Though arguably still in its infancy, Apple's App Store has already reached a daily run rate that's seen iPhone and iPod touch users combine to download approximately 2.2 million applications every day.Apple hasn't announced that figure outright, but CNBC's Jim Goldman drew attention to one of the company's advertisement in the New York Times today that says iPhone users have "downloaded over 300 million" applications from the App Store since it launched in July.
The last time the iPhone maker provided an update on App Store downloads was October 21st, when it noted that users would download the 200 millionth app the following day. That means that in just 45 days shoppers have downloaded another 100 million apps, or well over 2 million per day.
Meanwhile, market intelligence firm comScore said Thursday that Apple.com was the 5th most trafficked retail site on Cyber Monday -- the Monday immediately following Black Friday -- with 3.68 million shoppers hitting its store pages, a 43 percent increase from average daily traffic during the month of November.
eBay (12.9 million) took top honors, followed by big-box retailers Amazon.com (9.2 million), Wal-Mart (6.76 million), and Target (4.8 million).
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The questions are;
How many of these are paid apps,
and,
what is the average price of those apps?
In the past we were told that it was about 50%.
If that's true now, and the average app costs, say, $3, that's about $3,300,000 a day, or about $1.2 billion a year!
That's pretty damn good for only about 12 million phones!
Imagine how many apps will go when there are 50 million out there.
I can see why the app store is considered to be much more important for apple than the iTunes store.
That's a lot of free "Level" APPs-
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Originally Posted by teckstud 
That's a lot of free "Level" APPs-
That's a lot of free "Level" APPs-
25% of the apps in the store are free. The other 75% are paid apps. I paid for my level app, and it's very good, and helpful.
As I said, if it still holds up, about 50% of the downloads are paid. I've been reading that the average app sells for about $3.
Apple should consider having an app store for the shareware apps it lists. There are many that I have wanted to buy but I don't want to give some company I never heard of my personal information and credit card number. I'd rather give it to Apple and then have Apple send the company the payment.
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Originally Posted by sc_markt
Apple should consider having an app store for the shareware apps it lists. There are many that I have wanted to buy but I don't want to give some company I never heard of my personal information and credit card number. I'd rather give it to Apple and then have Apple send the company the payment.
Apple should consider having an app store for the shareware apps it lists. There are many that I have wanted to buy but I don't want to give some company I never heard of my personal information and credit card number. I'd rather give it to Apple and then have Apple send the company the payment.
Not a bad idea. But, then the companies would have to give Apple a cut (which would be good for Apple, but not so good for the company). I wonder if they aready have to give Apple a cut to be posted on the Shareware site. But then again, if there was a "Shareware store", maybe those small companies would make more money.
So much for "closed system no one will develop for" and "Apple treat their developers so bad that no one will develop for such closed system"
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Originally Posted by sc_markt
Apple should consider having an app store for the shareware apps it lists. There are many that I have wanted to buy but I don't want to give some company I never heard of my personal information and credit card number. I'd rather give it to Apple and then have Apple send the company the payment.
Apple should consider having an app store for the shareware apps it lists. There are many that I have wanted to buy but I don't want to give some company I never heard of my personal information and credit card number. I'd rather give it to Apple and then have Apple send the company the payment.
You're talking about shareware for the Mac?
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Originally Posted by melgross
If that's true now, and the average app costs, say, $3, that's about $3,300,000 a day, or about $1.2 billion a year!
That's pretty damn good for only about 12 million phones!
Imagine how many apps will go when there are 50 million out there.
I can see why the app store is considered to be much more important for apple than the iTunes store.
If that's true now, and the average app costs, say, $3, that's about $3,300,000 a day, or about $1.2 billion a year!
That's pretty damn good for only about 12 million phones!
Imagine how many apps will go when there are 50 million out there.
I can see why the app store is considered to be much more important for apple than the iTunes store.
Is it even realistic to think that there will be an average of $1000 in iPhone app spending a year? I think that's enough to suggest that the trend probably won't continue on that trajectory.
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Originally Posted by JeffDM
Is it even realistic to think that there will be an average of $1000 in iPhone app spending a year? I think that's enough to suggest that the trend probably won't continue on that trajectory.
Is it even realistic to think that there will be an average of $1000 in iPhone app spending a year? I think that's enough to suggest that the trend probably won't continue on that trajectory.
12 million iphones and $1.2 billion is only $100/year and doesn't account for Touches. Seems reasonable to maintain with new/good apps.
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