Comments on: Apple App Store Crosses 100,000 App Threshold http://www.intomobile.com/2009/11/04/apple-app-store-crosses-100000-app-threshold.html IntoMobile delivers breaking news, information, and analysis on the latest cell phones and cell phone technology. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:44:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Gadget Sleuthhttp://www.intomobile.com/2009/11/04/apple-app-store-crosses-100000-app-threshold.html/comment-page-1/#comment-358320 Gadget Sleuth Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:50:26 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/?p=70002#comment-358320 Mace, you're correct, but on the other hand, if you made an app for a platform with fewer customers, that's fewer potential sales, no matter how good it is. Mace, you’re correct, but on the other hand, if you made an app for a platform with fewer customers, that’s fewer potential sales, no matter how good it is.

]]> By: Macehttp://www.intomobile.com/2009/11/04/apple-app-store-crosses-100000-app-threshold.html/comment-page-1/#comment-358317 Mace Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:19:22 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/?p=70002#comment-358317 "...there’s no disputing that the App Store is the ‘place to be’ for developers looking to make some coin."Actually, NOT. The huge amount of apps in Apple store does not make it more attractive to the developers, on the contrary.It is a simple law of supply and demand .The most attractive store to make money is the one that has least amount of supply (applications) compared to the demand (users who would like to buy something).Let's take an example. For iPhone, the ratio could be something like 1e5/1e7, i.e. 1/100. For Ovi store, the ratio could be something like 1e4/1e8, i.e. 1/10000.So, you should in principle earn 100 times more money when you put your application to Ovi instead of Apple Store.To put even more simply, if you would sell apples (!) on market square, which scenario you would prefer: A) there are 10 other apple salesmen and 1000 customers, or B) there are 100 other apple salesmen and 10 customers. “…there’s no disputing that the App Store is the ‘place to be’ for developers looking to make some coin.”

Actually, NOT. The huge amount of apps in Apple store does not make it more attractive to the developers, on the contrary.

It is a simple law of supply and demand .The most attractive store to make money is the one that has least amount of supply (applications) compared to the demand (users who would like to buy something).

Let’s take an example. For iPhone, the ratio could be something like 1e5/1e7, i.e. 1/100. For Ovi store, the ratio could be something like 1e4/1e8, i.e. 1/10000.

So, you should in principle earn 100 times more money when you put your application to Ovi instead of Apple Store.

To put even more simply, if you would sell apples (!) on market square, which scenario you would prefer: A) there are 10 other apple salesmen and 1000 customers, or B) there are 100 other apple salesmen and 10 customers.

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