Comments on: Report: iPhone Applications Are Getting Cheaper

By: iPhone app Reviews

iPhone app Reviews — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:32:54 +0000

Great to hear that apps are getting cheaper. I think I have had everyone of those free top 5 apps and 3/5 of the paid. Guess I have popular taste

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By: Vivian Aranha

Vivian Aranha — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:46:26 +0000

Diamonds became FREE – before it was 1$.

http://itunes.a...967307&mt=8

By: Stature Software Blog » iPhone Apps Give Businesses A Boost

Stature Software Blog » iPhone Apps Give Businesses A Boost — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:07:30 +0000

[...] cheaper iPhone applications. Distimo – a Dutch analyst company – recently found that in April alone prices [...]

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:26:45 +0000

Sure, if you only want apps that were designed by a single guy still living with Mom and Dad. Some will be outstanding. Most will be worthless.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:51:18 +0000

Amen brother.

By: Richard Lawler

Richard Lawler — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:39:02 +0000

Actually no. The vast majority of iPhone apps are not free. There are about 12000 free apps on the App Store out of almost 60000 apps.

By: Guildford Website design

Guildford Website design — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:08:25 +0000

Cheap is good

By: Automatic Gates

Automatic Gates — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:07:40 +0000

Cheaper the better

By: Chum

Chum — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:34:57 +0000

In case you’re not aware, the vast majority of iPhone apps are also free.

By: Jimmy Giliberti

Jimmy Giliberti — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:11:11 +0000

Here are some more price measurements and discussions of discountability of Apps using iTunes…

http://www.quim...r-a-dollar.html

Bottom line is that it’s hard to find apps, Apple doesn’t make it easy to be seen, and like iTunes songs, AppStore apps are purchased in 99c chunks…

By: Antair Games » Blog Archive » Weekly Update

Antair Games » Blog Archive » Weekly Update — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:53:26 +0000

[...] A couple of interesting articles I read on the App Store market: 6 months of iPhone App Sales Stats, and iPhone Applications are getting cheaper. [...]

By: blockers

blockers — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:09:22 +0000

Pricing are dropping? Funny what competition does…..

By: iPhone app prices are dropping | SMS messaging mobile marketing Blog

iPhone app prices are dropping | SMS messaging mobile marketing Blog — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:29:08 +0000

[...] monitoring start-up Distimo has just released an interesting report about Apple’s App Store. TechCrunch reports. Based on publicly available data for the month of April, 2009, which you can download [...]

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:49:32 +0000

Thanks a lot for this valuable info Robin we will continue to read your stats! I still believe though that AAA games will differentiate themselves in the App Store from really cheap productions and very casual stuff, where consumers do perceive higher value for (few) money and be willing to spend the $9,99 like Tiger Woods, Assassin’s Creed, or Let’s Golf at $5,99 or 2XL Supercross for $7,99, those are amazing games for ridiculous price still!!! and selling extremely well too (of course dev costs are much higher from around $350k-600k or Hero of Sparta even more!) so even though your Stats show very low prices (and going down for top 10 top 25), there is space for great productions there too! The Store is incredible and has broken all the game platform rules that existed before!!

By: correction

correction — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:04:54 +0000

most indie devs cant sue copy/ip rip. and place becomes competitive. and prices drop.

By: 調査レポート：iPhoneアプリの価格は下がっている

調査レポート：iPhoneアプリの価格は下がっている — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:56:27 +0000

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By: Price Elasticity of iPhone Apps | DevelopmentCorporate

Price Elasticity of iPhone Apps | DevelopmentCorporate — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:52:32 +0000

[...] most recent piece Report: iPhone Applications Are Getting Cheaper does an excellent job of summarizing a recent report by Distmo. “Distimo , a young Dutch [...]

By: Kevin Eklund

Kevin Eklund — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:06:04 +0000

That may not be the case given that Android is on more than one type of phone whereas Apple just has the iPhone.

By: Natalia

Natalia — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:51:04 +0000

Most of this is pretty much in line with my observations as a developer in the market for the past 10 months.

The fact that all their data seems to come from the top-100 lists makes it pretty specious, however. They are only looking at roughly 0.25% of the total sample size.

This heading is particularly misleading:

”
4) Nearly a quarter of all apps got updated during the month of April

From all the free and paid apps that have been in the Top 100 in April, 83 apps released an update during the same month. That represents 24% of all apps that were in the Top 100.
”

Saying that ALL APPS got updated in April is misleading. It’s only a quarter of the best-selling 0.25% of all apps that got updated. I’m guessing that apps that aren’t selling are also not getting updated, and the overall app update rate is much, much lower.

Natalia from Imangi Studios

By: IWantAiPhone

IWantAiPhone — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:31:01 +0000

Yea this is nothing new. I have been watching the prices of the apps at http://appstoreicons.com and they have been trending downward.

By: Report: iPhone Applications Are Getting Cheaper - TechCrunch | iPhone App News

Wed, 20 May 2009 19:22:10 +0000

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By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:08:30 +0000

that’s why there is very less incentive for developer to develop for Android

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:00:32 +0000

Interesting stats. Not too surprising, however.

By: Apple App Store Report April US « Distimo Report

Apple App Store Report April US « Distimo Report — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:48:59 +0000

[...] The report was covered by TechCrunch. [...]