

The other interesting element from the App Annie data is the country comparisons for downloads and revenues.įor Google Play, the US is the top downloading country (21%) – followed by South Korea, home of Samsung (and LG) at 11%. VentureBeat has posted an update, which employs the same figures used in the top graph (for revenues) and compares them with Apple's officially released figures (which aren't month by month, but occasional) and interpolates them it calculates that App Store revenues were running at about $300m per month in January 2012, and $333m by October.


The headline figures suggest a continuation of a common theme for developers trying to decide between the two platforms: in the west, iOS monetises better than Android, and even in the rest of the world outside the US (where the iPhone gets an artificial advantage in sales).Īpple challenged App Annie's figures after they were published on Friday, telling VentureBeat that the figures didn't agree with its own App Store revenue figures. Source: App AnnieĪpp Annie is an analytics system used by more than 150,000 apps, and by 80% of the top 100 iOS publishers, and says it has tracked more than 11bn downloads from various app stores. Relative revenue per download, App Store v Google Play, for2012.
