Apple's $3.3 billion iPhone apps industry...

Jonny Evans
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September 07, 2009
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Appsfire : App Store real market data insights

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The average iPhone user has already spent $80 on Apps, according to fresh research from AppsFire. The company, which provides a service for “sharing” iPhone apps with others, conducted a survey of 1,200 of its (mostly US-based) users to establish some key data on the habits of iPhone and iPod touch users.

Key points include:

- The average iPhone user has downloaded 65 apps for a cost of around $80 for paid apps.

- The survey group had downloaded around 15,000 apps in total, suggesting that around 50,000 apps aren’t being downloaded particularly frequently.

- The average selling price of each app is around $1.56.

- 54 per cent of installed Apps are free apps.

- Just 7 per cent of users only have free apps.

- Extrapolated, AppsFire estimates the total paid app market to be worth c.$3.3 billion, that’s before Apple takes its 30 per cent cut on sales.

 

Comments (2)

seearees (not verified) | September 07, 2009 - 11:13am

every time I think about how much I've spent I get kinda depressed. I'm easily past the $1,000 mark since the appstore opened.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 07, 2009 - 2:02pm

I just bought it for free!