Research firm App Annie prepared a report on what the app stores are most profitable for developers. According to the study, App Store took first place in the ranking, despite the fact that the number of downloads Google Play ahead "apple" store, said the analysts.
Google Play is the main competitor online kiosk Apple. First though has a greater market share, but the owners of smartphones and tablets on the Android reluctant to spend money in your applications. Both stores showed a significant increase compared with the previous quarter. According to a study in the II quarter of 2014 Android users have downloaded 150 million applications and games, which is 60% more compared to the first quarter. The number of application downloads owners iPhone, iPad and iPod touch has increased by 45% - to 100 million items. A key factor in the growth of Google Play is emerging markets where Android-phones are very popular.
C in terms of income, the situation in favor of the mobile platform Apple: for the period from April to June this year, the turnover in the market applications for iOS was $ 100 million, up 45% compared to I quarter. In the segment of Android-developer solutions revenue grew by 30% and amounted to approximately $ 60 million
Report of App Annie also implies that Russia dropped out of the triple states with the highest number of downloads of applications from Google Play. RF pressed India and leaders of the rating are the United States and Brazil. Most profitable countries for developers Android-applications are Japan, the United States, South Korea, Germany and Taiwan.
As for the App Store, here is the main driver of revenue growth are China and Japan. Taiwan, Kuwait and Turkey for the last quarter managed to increase revenues by nearly a third. U.S. still leads in the number of downloaded iOS-applications as well as revenue from their sale.
On both platforms, the most popular games, system applications, instant messengers, entertainment and social applications.