Wonderful. A new round of "let's make up some ridiculous numbers so we can hammer Apple when they fail to meet them".

Apple was, by far, the leader in App Store revenues in 2012, but only sold about $15 M per day ($5.5 B). Google was about 1/4 as much and no one else contributed enough to matter. So TOTAL App sore revenue was around $8 B last year.
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/20/google-play-grows-faster-but-apples-app-store-still-makes-way-more-money-distimo/

Or, for alternative numbers, Apple reports that the App store achieved $4 B in revenue from 2008 through April, 2012. Or that TOTAL iTunes sales (including music, books, apps, and movies) were $1.9 B in the first quarter last year:
http://www.appolicious.com/finance/articles/11792-apples-itunes-app-store-surpasses-600k-apps-1-9-billion-in-revenue-for-q2

So the market is going to more than triple this year? And does anyone doubt for a second that AAPL will get hammered if they don't achieve these absurd numbers?

I want to be an analyst. Let's see:
Apple will sell 47 trillion televisions in 2014 at an average selling price of $19.99. They will sell umpty-two quadrillion apps during the 2nd half of this year. And they will give way google-plex ponies to loyal customers next week.

If they don't meet those expectations, you should definitely sell your Apple stock.

Talk about quality and controlled-entry-to-appstore. Then, Apple will lead.

Originally Posted by jragosta 
If they don't meet those expectations, you should definitely sell your Apple stock.

Also, Apple's entire executive team should be fired and Woz should be brought back on as CEO.

The Apple Effect. Ok, maybe the App Effect.

All the connectivity we're getting has to have economic consequences. What they will be eludes me. I was completely surprised by the political effects in North Africa, though we should have known. Marshall McLuhan is slapping his knee: "Told you so."

Wonder how those liars at Samsung will
spin this news to make themselves look like innovators.

What's interesting to me, is the relatively small number of apps that people actually use all the time.

A possibly useful site is :   http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/mobileplanet/,  where you can instantly create charts about mobile usage.

For example, here's one I made about average app usage in the USA... how many are on the phone, how many are actually used, and how many were paid for:

There was also a report not long ago, that talked about how many apps people download and just use once or twice ever.

I don't like these articles where they lump Apple together with Google. They should keep them separate.

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I don't like these articles where they lump Apple together with Google. They should keep them separate.

What we know right now, is Apple is paying out $1,000,000,000/month to developers for revenue of $1,300,000,000/month so if we assume 0% growth (and that won't happen), iOS represents $15.6 billion of the 25 billion.  If we assume that growth continues at the same rate, iOS represents about 21 billion of the 25 billion (did the estimate in the head based on past developer payout growth rates).