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January 19th, 2010, 14:50
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/01/500x_iphone_app_sales_jan10.001-thumb-640xauto-11483.jpg (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/01/iphone_app_sales_jan10.001-thumb-640xauto-11483.png)Say what you will about platforms, but in 2009, Apple's App Store (http://gizmodo.com/tag/appstore/) absolutely pwnd the paid mobile app space—selling 99.4% of the $4.2 billion market single-handedly, according to ars technica (http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/apple-responsible-for-994-of-mobile-app-sales-in-2009.ars).
All this data is based upon research by Gartner, who claims that, should sale trends continue, Apple could retain 2/3 of the paid mobile app market into 2010 (amidst growing competition from Android, Palm, RIM, etc). Of course, if Apple releases an app-wielding tablet, market share could error greatly in their favor again.
(Note: there's some discrepancy in these numbers, as Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/) corrects ars' number crunching (http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/apple-responsible-for-994-of-mobile-app-sales-in-2009.ars) from 99.4% to 97.5%. Whatever, either way, it's enough of the market to mean every other retailer was moot in 2009.)[Ars (http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/apple-responsible-for-994-of-mobile-app-sales-in-2009.ars) and Gartner (http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1282413)]
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All this data is based upon research by Gartner, who claims that, should sale trends continue, Apple could retain 2/3 of the paid mobile app market into 2010 (amidst growing competition from Android, Palm, RIM, etc). Of course, if Apple releases an app-wielding tablet, market share could error greatly in their favor again.
(Note: there's some discrepancy in these numbers, as Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/) corrects ars' number crunching (http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/apple-responsible-for-994-of-mobile-app-sales-in-2009.ars) from 99.4% to 97.5%. Whatever, either way, it's enough of the market to mean every other retailer was moot in 2009.)[Ars (http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/apple-responsible-for-994-of-mobile-app-sales-in-2009.ars) and Gartner (http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1282413)]
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