It is no longer a secret that the Android Marketplace will overtake the AppStore in terms of the number of available applications. Unfortunately for developers, the news is bad because the Appstore has 3 times more paid applications than the Android Marketplace, that is, the AppStore has 211.000 and the Android Marketplace only 71.000. 80% of the paid applications in the Android Marketplace did not sell more than 100 copies, and this seems to me to be an extraordinarily small number for such a large platform. Moving on, those from I distinguish I say that compared to the Android Marketplace in the AppStore there are 3 times more paid applications that have been downloaded over 500.000 times.
In a new report issued Friday, Distimo looks at why that might be. One obvious factor — not highlighted in April — is that there are nearly three times as many paid apps on Apple's App Store (211,369, by Distimo's count) as on Google's (71,801).
What Distimo discovered this time is that, for a variety of reasons, Android generates far fewer runaway hits. The most successful app in the Android Market, with more than 50 million downloads, is a Google freebie: Google Maps. Nothing else comes close.
Android Marketplace is a land of bad free apps that don't generate enough money for developers. For nothing, the Android Marketplace will surpass Apple's AppStore if, in the end, the best applications and the most money will also come from Apple.
