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The latest research from Gartner indicates that, for the year 2009, only 16 million app sales were executed on mobile devices not bearing the infamous bitten apple logo. In reporting this data, Ars Technica inadvertently conflates Apple’s latest announcement of three billion apps downloaded with the notion of three billion apps sold and pegs the App Store’s market share at a whopping 99.4 percent — but more realistic calculations still show it to be somewhere in the vicinity of 97.5 percent.
That ‘s an excerpt from an Engadget article, adjusting the amazing figures provided in a recent Gartner report on mobile app sales on mobile devices. The thing is, either way round the numbers are staggering:
— Even 97.5% is amazing. That still leaves everybody else with just 2.5% of mobile app sales. And some of those within the everybody else group had ten years and more head start on the iPhone platform.
— Going with Engadget and GigaOm ‘s guesstimate that one quarter of downloaded apps are paid for, 70 million apps were bought in the iPhone App Store in December 09. So in that one month, that ‘s four times as many app sales as the total for everyone else in the entire year of 2009.
— After just a year and a half of the App Store being open, it dominates the mobile apps space to a ridiculous degree.
This is a pretty nice little area to be dominating as well. Gartner predicts huge growth in mobile app downloads and revenues over the next few years “ and I can ‘t think of any reasons why that trend will not just continue and gain momentum.
You have to laugh a little (or maybe a lot) when you look at numbers like these and then think about all the talk from Windows Mobile and Palm and others when the iPhone came along, about how there was no way Apple could just waltz into this brand new marketplace and have any real impact.
Sources: Engadget, GigaOm, Gartner
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