Where are all the Android apps?
[Editor's note: With the iPhone and Google's Android dominating media attention in the mobile space, it's only natural to start drawing comparisons. Applications represent a prime arena for such a competition, except for one thing -- Android doesn't even come close to rivaling the iPhone when it comes to app offerings. Below, ad network executive Rana Sobhany, explains why Google seems to be dragging its feet.]
At this point, it’s safe to say that no one anticipated… Continue Reading
State of the apps — iPhone: 10,000 apps, 300 million downloads. Android: 462 apps
300 million: It’s roughly the population of the United States, and now it’s also the number of applications that have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store, according to ads that ran in the print version of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal today.
For something that only launched on July 11 of this year, it’s a pretty staggering number. And Apple can thank the development community that has created over 10,000 apps for the… Continue Reading
The revenge of the $9.99 iPhone apps
When Apple’s App Store first launched back in July there was a wide range of prices for individual applications. While many were free, quite a few of the early games were $5 or $10. But as time has passed, there’s definitely been a trend of the paid apps to move towards $0.99, which seems to be a magic price point for high sales. But $0.99-an-app isn’t much of a way for developers to make a… Continue Reading
Android Marketplace: Number of apps nearly triple in five days
When the Android Marketplace (the place to download applications for the Google Android mobile platform) launched last week, things looked a bit sparse: There were only 62 applications available. It looked especially weak compared to Apple’s App Store, which launched with more than 600 apps early in the summer. But less than a week into the Marketplace’s existence, things are filling out, according to data from mobile analytics and advertising company Medialets.
By October 29, the… Continue Reading
Android Market’s first 24 hours: It’s like deja vu all over again (but with fewer apps)
It’s hard to take any data collection in the 24-hour period following a product’s launch very seriously. But the mobile analytics and advertising firm Medialets compares its first data from Google’s Android Market with the first 24-hours of the iPhone App Store. Probably not surprisingly, the results are pretty similar.
People like games, shopping, music and weather, according to the data. Perhaps not coincidentally, those often seem to be topics people talk about or do when… Continue Reading
Medialets doubles down, launches Android analytics service
Today at the launch of T-Mobile’s G1 Google Android phone, Medialets, a company which has had success running an analytics and ad network for Apple iPhone, will announce its platform availability for Android phones.
Initially, Medialets will consist of an analytics package before rolling out the advertising platform. It will have the same look and feel as the current Medialets product for the iPhone — and in fact, will offer side-by-side comparison for any developers who… Continue Reading
New version of Medialets analytics shows your App Store apps how they stack up
60 days after the launch of the App Store there are already a ton of applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. In fact, at today’s Apple “Let’s Rock” event Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said there are over 3,000 apps that have been downloaded some 100,000,000 times already. With so many apps there is getting to be a lot of competition out there between ones that serve similar functions. Medialets‘ new analytics release aims… Continue Reading
A thousand apps of the iPhone empire descend upon you
How fast is Apple’s new App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch growing? When it launched just over two weeks ago it had around 500 applications available. Last night it hit the 1,000 mark, according to Fortune’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt.
The store appears to be growing at a pace of between 20 and 40 new applications a day. On Sunday night, there were 977 apps available, according to Medialets. Of those, over a quarter were games.
Games… Continue Reading