More than 5 years ago, Apple launched the first terminal iPhone on the market, but in a short period of time it managed to develop two more products in its base. Tim Cook yesterday announced that 410 million iDevices have been sold worldwide to date and 45 million of them were sold in the previous fiscal quarter alone. Doing some calculations, we find out that during this period Apple activated approximately 5-600.000 iDevices daily, a rather small number if we take into account the fact that Android activates double every day, but we are talking about an extremely large number of phones there cheap sold at very low prices.
Moving from iDevice sales to App Store I will tell you that Apple has so far paid 5.5 billion dollars to iOS application developers and dividing this amount by the number of iDevices sold worldwide we find that each iDevice generated $18.50 in sales in the App Store. Continuing the calculations, we find that 13$ were paid to the developers for each iDevice, and Apple collected 5.50$ as sales commission, so we are talking about a substantial amount of money that reached the treasury of the American company.
Now we are only talking about estimates and we all know that many do not buy any application with their iDevice, but the App Store generates the most money of all the virtual application stores and this will not change soon.
