Apple recently surpassed the 10 Billion app download mark, but it took them 2.5 years or so to get there. According to Gartner, that number will be dwarfed with about 17.7 billion apps to be downloaded in this year alone.
Naturally that figure is across multiple mobile platforms, and Gartner point out that 81% of that number is expected to be free app downloads. But they still think that app store revenue is expected to surpass $15.1 billion this year.
In other words, there’s plenty of money there for developers. You just need to create the next Angry Birds…
[Gartner via Lifehacker]
vijay
Friday, January 28, 2011 at 2:27 PMIn android u can not only download the apps but only u can install apps from Sd card( Side loading apps).
i install lot of apps from my Sd card as i download the paid apps for free and enjoy the fun
Ross
Friday, January 28, 2011 at 3:39 PMYes, vijay, but the developers dont..
On the whole this isnt so bad, but it does hurt the ‘little guy’ devs..
pan.sapiens
Friday, January 28, 2011 at 11:21 PMYup and 15 billion will be thinly disguised websites, the rest fart apps &c (oh, and Angry Birds).