Mobile app analytics company Distimo has compiled their findings on the six largest mobile app stores offered by Apple, Palm, Research In Motion, Google, Nokia and Microsoft.
Distimo presented its findings about app store size, growth, average price and free-versus-paid-app ratio at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain last week.
For quantity of apps, the results aren't surprising: It's common knowledge that Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market are in the lead. More interesting is the lesser-known state of the smaller players. Windows Mobile has 690 apps, Palm has 1,450, Nokia carries 6,120 and BlackBerry serves 4,760. (Figures are all rounded.)
Distimo also analyzed growth rate of the stores. Android is in a distant second with 19,300 apps compared with Apple's 151,000 apps. However, Android's growth rate is faster relative to the number of apps housed. Android's growth is picking up with 3,000 new apps per month (15 percent). Apple is growing with about 14,000 new apps added per month (9 percent).
As for the average cost of apps in each store, RIM's apps were the priciest at an average of $8.26 for apps, followed closely by Windows Mobile's, priced at $7 on average. Apps sold by Nokia, Apple, Google and Palm all came out in roughly the same average price range ($2.50 - $3.60).
Other observations? Android has the most free apps, and for the iTunes App Store, games were the most popular category. A full summary and more charts of Distimo's presentation are available at ReadWriteWeb, which first reported the story.
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