{"id":3546,"date":"2011-05-05T16:07:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T20:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2011-05-05T16:07:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T20:07:02","slug":"android-market-predicted-to-surpass-apple-app-store-by-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/android-market-predicted-to-surpass-apple-app-store-by-august-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Market Predicted to Surpass Apple App Store by August 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/storage\/post-images-2011\/androidmarket-to-surpass-appleappstore.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1304613226528\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new report from Distimo shows that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Android Market<\/a> is  expected to offer more applications for download\/and or purchase than  Apple&#8217;s App store before by the end of 2011. The\u00a0growth of the App store  has decreased lately, while the market&#8217;s growth\u00a0rate has been\u00a0accelerating.\u00a0Another report from Germany&#8217;s\u00a0research2guidance, backs up Distimo\u2019s findings. They\u00a0forecast that the Android Market will exceed the App Store\u00a0by August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/storage\/post-images-2011\/andriod-market-insights.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1304612730399\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This will happen if growth rates continue as expected, with Android  reaching 425,000 apps next August, effectively overtaking App Store in  size.\u00a0The report shows that 28,000 new apps were added to the Android  Market in April 2011, while only 11,000 new apps went live via Apple.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of applications available on both platforms don&#8217;t see  much traction. There are between 100,000 to 200,000 apps that may rarely  or never get downloaded by anyone (on both platforms). The high growth  rate of the Android Market does not necessarily mean that the average  mobile app developer will make money. In fact, research2guidance, says  that the\u00a0opposite may be true:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the contrary, the success of an app store is negatively correlated  to the success of an average developer. All analysis on the early  months of an app store including the Android Market shows that average  download numbers decrease dramatically after the first months or even  weeks after the launch of the store. The long tail gets longer and  longer while the top 5% gets richer and richer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from Distimo shows that the\u00a0Android Market is expected to offer more applications for download\/and or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/3547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}