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iPhone ahead of Android in app sales
By siliconindia
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Friday, 06 August 2010, 14:58 IST
Bangalore: While comparing with its iPhone applications, Korean mobile gaming company Com2uS has achieved half of the volume for its Android apps. The developer, which claims to be the leader in Korea, offers many of its apps simultaneously on both platforms, Jay Yarow from the Business Insider.
Baseball game Home Run Battle was downloaded an average of 400 to 500 times each day for the first few months of availability in the Android Market, with recent sales slowing just 200 to 300 downloads. The app reached the top of a list comparing the most popular paid apps, although revenue estimates suggest the company only brought in $200,000 to $250,000 so far.
Downloads from iTunes are usually twice as large as downloads from Android," Com2uS General Manager Don Kim. "If you look at the number one on iPhone and the number one on Android, it's a lot bigger on the iPhone."
Google has been known to be actively promoting the Android market to iPhone developers. The company reportedly gave away free Nexus One handsets to developers as an incentive to rewrite apps for Android. The new Android App Inventor utility is also expected to attract new developers, as it eliminates the need to learn code for creating simple apps.
Despite the App Store's ongoing dominance in the mobile arena, Kim expects that Android will continue to close the gap. The executive suggests the iPhone established an early lead due to its superior specs at the time, however several of the latest high-end Android offerings should help level the playing field.
