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iPhone Apps n’ Store

The App Store stats summary from April 4^th, 2010 is quite revealing.  In the beginning, the first tip-off that Apple was up to something came on December 14^th, 1999, when Apple purchased the domain name www.iphone.org, which up through the present day directs visitors to Apple’s main corporate page.  Since that time, Apple has realized some significant growth.  The following stats will reveal that it is quite impressive.

Take a look at the count of active applications that are presently available in the App Store:

• There are 191,449 total active Apps available for purchase in the App Store.
• There are 31,734 total inactive Apps.
• There are 223,183 total Apps.
• All of these Apps come from 37,595 active App publishers.

The count of application submissions is also quite impressive:

• There are 2,675 games available in the App Store, and an average of 96 are submitted on a daily basis.
• There are 14,689 games available in the App Store, and an average of 525 are submitted on a daily basis.
• There are 17,364 total applications available in the App Store, and 620 are submitted on a daily basis.

Now have a look at the application price distribution:

• The current average App price is $3.04 per application.
• The current average game price is $1.39 per game.
• The current average overall price is $2.78 per application.

The most popular categories are as follows (the size of the share represents category share):

1. Books (34,288 active)
2. Games (29,159 active)
3. Entertainment (22,658 active)
4. Education (14,330 active)
5. Travel (11,501 active)

Another interesting thing to look at is the relationship between Google and iPhone.  It is a fact that Google commands over half of all the Web traffic on iPhones.  Of course, this is not too shocking, considering that Google is the default browser.  These statistics are taken from the Chikitah Research report, and are quite interesting:

• 50% of iPhone Web traffic takes place on Google search.
• 54% of all smart phone traffic takes place on an iPhone.
• 27% of all smart phone traffic takes place on Google’s Android
• 31% of all Web traffic takes place on Google search.

As of April 29, 2010, Apple purchased Siri, which is a developer of an iPhone voice search application.  It appears as if this is another attempt by Apple to get ahead of Google’s Voice Search that is available on the Android.  Perhaps this feature will be available on iPhone 4.0, which would be quite impressive.

The following statistics demonstrate the applications available per smart phone platform:

• There are 1,000 Palm Pre applications.
• There are 20,000 Google Android applications.
• There are 190,000 Apple iPhone applications.

By the end of 2010, Apple expects to see some substantial growth.  They anticipate application development will triple and reach 570,000.  Also impressive is that from June of last year, Apple anticipated requests to be up 20%, but in the past three months alone, with over 100,000 registered iPhone app developers, iPhone App Quotes experienced this 20% increase in registered developers.

Sources:  ElectricPig, 184Apps.biz, PrMac, Apple