At this year’s Mobile World Congress Distimo unveiled a detailed presentation that focused on all the major app stores. They collected a bunch of different kinds of interesting data. Not surprisingly the Apple App Store continues its dominance over all others when it comes to amount of applications available. On the other hand BlackBerry App World is still struggling to find its place.
One slide in particular shows store growth and focuses on the amount of new applications to hit each app store between Dec 09-Feb 10. As expected the Apple App Store had the most with 13,865 and Android came in second with 3,005 new applications. BlackBerry App World had the least amount of new applications and was even behind Nokia’s app store. This is somewhat shocking as you would at least expect App World to be growing faster than Nokia’s OVI.
Distimo also looked at price comparisons for all the app stores. It turns out BlackBerry App World has the highest average price for paid applications. Now this is in large part due to the fact that App World has some apps that are priced unbelievably high. Consider this, IM+ for BlackBerry sells for $29.99 but the same application in the App Store only costs $4.99. RIM can’t be happy with the growth of BlackBerry App World. Even though it’s still relatively new there is a lot of work to be done. On the flip side Android seems to be growing and gaining popularity. You can check out the full presentation by Distimo here.
