iOS Apps Four Times More Profitable Than Android Store

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Talk about advertising to the wrong market lol.

 

[frankbough]

[citation][nom]kartu[/nom]You know, you are not the only bright person who came to an idea that pirated = lost sale.Yet closing megaupload resulted in slight decline of revenues. Strange uh?Oh and you know what are the piracy rates on iOS? Let me remind you:1) 90% piracy rate (number of times an app got pirated)2) only 10% of users actually jailbreak Strange uh? Now let me explain it to you, this is because:1) Pirates download tons of stuff, most of it BS, generating huge traffic and making bosses behind MAFIAA hysterical about lost income2) Most of the pirates would never ever buy most of the stuff they download, many won't buy any[/citation]

Can you explain why closing Megaupload resulted in a decline in revenues? I mean can you explain the cause-effect nature of this?
Can you then square this with the comment that pirates aren't going to buy the stuff anyway?
I always thought it was claimed that pirated stuff made people go out and buy other, more legit, stuff.

 

[masterasia]

I miss App Planet.

 

[bunz_of_steel]

I don't care... apple suks imho. Not to say they have something inferior or better it's just something I'm not interested in using.

 

[Guest]

The iPhone AppStore is more profitable because like windows it's useless when you purchase it. Android on the other hand, like linux has loads of useful applications that are free. So for any iPhone user to get anywhere with their device they have to pay $100's of dollars for navigation, office software and so on.

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]Brunis[/nom]The iPhone AppStore is more profitable because like windows it's useless when you purchase it. Android on the other hand, like linux has loads of useful applications that are free. So for any iPhone user to get anywhere with their device they have to pay $100's of dollars for navigation, office software and so on.[/citation]
You are just trolling me thinks. Both the app store and the Play store have high quality and junk apps. I think one has more high quality apps but that's already been discussed.

 

[wemakeourfuture]

[citation][nom]kinggraves[/nom]The people that buy Apple products are the people who don't mind paying extra for the same product due to an image and imagined quality difference. People with that extra disposable income will also be likely to spend it on apps they don't need to pay for, rather than find an alternative. There is also the fact that when you buy things from one device, you end up locked in that device. Someone with a sizeable app collection from Apple is not going to switch to Android and force themselves to buy those apps again. This leaves them continuing to buy more from Apple, making their reluctance to switch greater. The market would be different if app licenses were movable between ecosystems.People that use Android are better informed about their decisions and only buy what they need, which usually isn't much. With free Ebook readers, music players, video players, etc, reality is the average consumer doesn't really "need" to buy any apps. It has nothing to do with Apple being a money magnet, the same consumers buying apps would buy the apps on Android if Apple was not around.[/citation]


You honestly think the average layperson using Android is better informed than the average iOS user? They both know next to nothing about technology and software.

95% of all smartphone users are not really tech people, they're the average person who is on Facebook for example.

The price difference between an iPhone 5 and a flagship Samsung (Note 2 or S3) is less than $100. In fact I can get a 16GB iPhone 5 under 3 contract for less than a Note 2. The price difference between an S3 with no contract and a iPhone 5 with no contract is $50.

People are not paying WAY more for an iPhone than flagship Android devices.
Android is a lot easier to pirate, their apps are not as good.

The people I know who spend the most on Apps on iOS are IT professionals not people who don't know about tech.

 

[Guest]

My best friend is an IT professional who spends a massive amount of his work time dealing with iOS. He would never spend hardly a dime on most of those worthlessly expensive apps. Because he knows there are FREE ALTERNATIVES that are just as good, often better. Especially on his android phone. And infact, most of the time he's dealing with highly educated people working for big name companies. And they are clueless about their phones and almost any kinda tech.