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65% of Android Publishers are Located in United States

Posted Jan 26 2010 by Scott Webster in News with 9 Comments

We’ve seen figures from inside the Android Market.Â We’ve seen numbers that show Android’s growth.Â Today, we get to see some numbers that give insight into the people behind the apps.Â Distimo‘s latest monthly report is out and it sheds some light on Android developers and their apps.

Found within the report are the following statistics:

65% of Android developers are from the United States, with another 12% in the UK, 20% from Europe (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain) and 3% in Japan.
European developers set the price their paid apps at an an average of $4.42 whereas those in the US are around $2.96 each.
The average price of all paid apps in the Android Market is around $3.50, which lower than the average Windows Mobile app ($6.99) and less than half the $8.26 BlackBerry ticket.

The highest ranked paid apps in the Android Market for December are twidroid PRO, Advanced Task Manager, and MyBackup Pro.Â The highest ranked free titles were T-Mobile My Account, Pandora Radio, and The Weather Channel.

Tags: android apps, android developers, android market, apps, developers, distimo Categories: News

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Scott WebsterScott founded AndroidGuys on November 5, 2007 and has been hooked ever since. His other mobile efforts can be found on AndroidAtlas (CNET) where he covers Google's mobile platform. When not obsessing over phones and tablets, Scott can be found listening to house music, watching the Green Bay Packers, or catching the latest movie.View all posts by Scott Webster →

http://intensedebate.com/people/Raphaels Raphaels

Well this taken from Android Market help pages explained a lot:

http://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?h…

Supported locations for merchants
Currently, developers in the below countries may register as Google Checkout merchants and sell priced applications:
Austria
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
Spain
United Kingdom
United States
We're working hard to add more countries, but we're unable to provide any guidance on timelines. Please stay tuned!

It has been like that for too long, Google should have added more countries long time ago! Simple economics: more clients means cheaper prices!
Casper

Yeah I was going to say, that's not unexpected since we can't publish applications yet from many European countries! Very very annoying, Google needs to open up that Marked!
bbq

Yes, still most developers in the world don't have access to sell in the Android Market. How is that open? Only developers from the richest nations in the world get to take part. Compare that to Apple where many developers in third world nations are doing very well from selling apps.
http://30secondsurveys.com Marry Gingona

Does this mean that people in United States are really good with this? However, they really are skilled and trained with this.
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