Android Market Sales Gloom
AdMob recently estimated that there are some $200 million worth of applications sold in Apple’s iPhone store every month, or about $2.4 billion a year, whereas the Android market is worth a paltry $5M. Larva Labs claims that the total is probably much lower.
Matt Hall lists some of the shortcomings currently plaguing the Android Market:
- No screenshots
- 325 character application description maximum
- Google checkout only way to buy
- Hard to find paid apps
- Various intermittent problems like failed or stalled downloads, credit card verification delays that look like stalled downloads, and other problems.
It seems that Android developers are seeing some really pathetic sales figures from the Android Market. Larva Labs, one of the top-selling Android developer saw an average of $62 per day in Android Market sales for August 2009.
