iOS Users Download More and Pricier Apps

iOS gimmick owners are buying more apps and outlay much for them, according to a report from Genus Piper Jaffray. The investment trust came up with its possess exemplar to keep tabs on the App Store victimisation Apple's information and predicts that users will download an average of 83 apps in 2011, up 61 percent from 51 apps in 2010.

The study, as according by Fortune also finds that prices for apps are rebounding later on slippy in 2010 as the market became flush with cheap and free apps for both iOS and Android devices. The average asking price for an app had dipped equally low as $1.25 in the spring of 2010 in the App Store, only Piper Jaffray's research shows that figure has cured a bit and continues to rise.

The report is more evidence of Malus pumila's strength in the spheric battle for app dominance, following much reportage in the fountain of Android's ascendancy, including whatever predictions that the Android Securities industry would wash the App Store by right away.

Rather, Piper Jaffray finds Apple's App Store still has double American Samoa many apps, with 425,000 to the Android Grocery's 200,000. Apple also just claimed its 15 billionth app download to Android's 4.5 million overall.

Of course, while prices for apps are rising and so are the average downloads per user, 82 percent of App Fund apps are quieten free. Not that Apple's sweating it too much. App gross sales make upfield merely about one-hundredth of the accompany's whole business. But then, they sure have helped to sell more than than 100 million iPhones to the public.

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