According to a new report from Gartner and courtesey of ARS Technica blog Apple iphone apps account for 99.4% of all mobile apps worldwide - that is staggering.
There are also some interesting stats on the growth and value as quoted:
"According to Gartner's numbers, Apple completely owns this market, grabbing almost every one of the 4.2 billion dollars spent on mobile apps in 2009. Based on Gartner's estimates and our own analysis, Apple could hold on to at least two-thirds of the market if current sales trends hold for 2010.
Apple first opened the App Store in July 2008, along with the launch of the iPhone 3G and the release of iPhone OS 2.0. Sales were brisk, with 300 million apps sold by December. After the holidays, that number had jumped to 500 million. Earlier this month, Apple announced that sales had topped 3 billion; that means iPhone users downloaded 2.5 billion apps in 2009 alone. Gartner's figures show another 16 million apps that could come from other platform's recently opened app stores, giving Apple at least 99.4 percent of all mobile apps sold for the year."
They also put this interesting graph up - again its hard to think of an industry that is this dominated by first mover advantage and it looks set to continue. I wonder how much of Apple's total income now comes from the App Store and iphone sales I'm guessing but probably approaching 50% seems a fair estimate.
Its very interesting to see how opening up a completely new market can effect a business moving forward.
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