Comparison of sales to other platforms

[leeus]

This may be useful to someone wanting to develop for other platforms..

A follow up comparing iOS, Android and WP7 sales | lesmond.net

[merlin]

Well, as much as I hate Android, these kinds of stats say nothing. There will be developers who do better on Apple, there will be developers doing better on Android. This is just anecdotal evidence.

On the other hand, this article:

Piper Jaffray: Android app revenue is 7% of iPhone's - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech

Is much more solid - it says, that while Android downloads are higher, the actual money spent on that platform is far less than what is being spent on iOS.
In other words - Android users don't like to spend money.

[bignoggins]

Pretty much matches my experience as well. I'm on all 3 platforms and I am being HEAVILY promoted on windows phone but sales are about 1% of iOS.

The 1:10:100 ratio is about right unless your app is significantly more successful on one platform versus the rest (ie paper camera). But assuming equivalent levels of success, it's pretty much an order of magnitude between each platform.

[dhun]

Originally Posted by bignoggins

Pretty much matches my experience as well. I'm on all 3 platforms and I am being HEAVILY promoted on windows phone but sales are about 1% of iOS.

The 1:10:100 ratio is about right unless your app is significantly more successful on one platform versus the rest (ie paper camera). But assuming equivalent levels of success, it's pretty much an order of magnitude between each platform.

I thought your opening Android release sales were pretty good. Have they gone down since?

[bignoggins]

Originally Posted by dhun

I thought your opening Android release sales were pretty good. Have they gone down since?

yeah they've settled to about 10% of iOS