Major Mobile App Store- A Study
If one wants to know how each mobile app store performs then a study has been done whereby major mobile app stores are Apple iPhone, Google Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Palm and Symbian. Of these, currently Apple iPhone and Android lead the pack when it comes to the mobile app store.
A study by Online Schools Org shows that of the above major mobile app store, Apple iPhone, launched in July 2008 has a download of 4 billion apps while Google Android has the second largest mobile app though they do not release the numbers. In Apple's mobile App Store, developers have been able to make 3 billion Dollars in earnings by accounting for 5 billion mobile app downloads. In 2009, Apple was accountable for 3.5 billion mobile app downloads making 2.4 billion which was 99.4% of mobile app revenue. Android market brings 60 million Dollars a year.