(Apple) App Store Market Worth 2.5 Billion Per Year?

[FanIn80]

Extrapolating the survey data to the estimated user bases of 26.4 million iPhone users and 18.6 million iPod touch users, AdMob suggests that the total App Store market size may be nearly $200 million per month, or approaching $2.5 billion per year. In contrast, the Android market is estimated at approximately $60 million per year.

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/08/27/...lion-per-year/

Perhaps old news for some, but quite a remarkable look at a fairly easy-to-enter market.

[Yeah_Baby]

Grumble, Grumble, Palm Pre and BlackBerry users should have free access to the App Store, grumble grumble. Monopoly, grumble, grumble.

[mykalberta]

I know it was said jokingly, but if and until Apple controls the majority of the cell phone market in the US, the appstore will and should never be opened to competitors.

Apple took a chance and it paid off, that is what private enterprise is all about.

iTunes for music might be a different story in 5 years when they might be forced to allow competitor devices to access it even though they barely break even from what I heard.