Higher profits for developers from Amazon Appstore compared to Android Market!

A new statistical analysis of Distimo, reveals very interesting facts about the bad marketing of the Android Market, and proves that Android application developers earn more money from sales from Amazon Android Appstore, despite the official store of Google!




The analysis was compared with 110 applications available in both stores applications, and showed that 42 of these are the most profitable branch of Amazon, which is responsible for 28% of the total turnover of these applications.


At first glance, would you say the title of the post does not reflect reality, but if you think that the Amazon Android Appstore applications offered in the U.S. alone, with about 25,000 of the 400,000 total of the Android Market (globally), then the ratio is clearly in favor of.


Furthermore, 65% of the applications offered in Amazon is paid, while the Android Market this percentage drops to 32%, but Amazon has the right to change prices and the average selling Top 100 application is $ 2.24, ie 40% less than the $ 3.76 for the Top 100 of the Android Market.


Read the report here.

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The countdown for the 25 billion downloads from App Store began!

Apple yesterday began the countdown for the 25th billionth app to be downloaded from the App Store. The promotional page on the site of ETAP states:
Today, nearly 25 billion apps have been download worldwide. Something that is so shocking, and the same applications. That's why we want to say thanks. Download the 25th billionth application and you could win a Gift Card from the App Store, value US $ 10.000. Simply visit the App Store and download your best fit.
The last quarter alone, the App Store revenue was more than $ 700 million. The total revenue of App Store to date is about $ 4 billion. It is worth noting the difference between 25 billion app downloads and 316 million iOS devices Apple, with 11 billion downloads from the Android Market and Android devices 250 million of Google. To App Store launched three years ago, on July 10, 2008, and that of Google followed three months later, on October 22, 2008.
If you have not read, Apple sold in 2011, more devices iOS Mac distance in 28 years.


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Symantec reveals malware applications in Android Market!

The talk of malware applications on Android Market has been running for several months with Google recognizing the problem and removing many problematic applications, nevertheless, Symantec published today that the virus has infected Android.Counterclank 1-5 million users android in 2012!

According to the company's largest "epidemic" malware in the history of Android, and it is a slight modification of trojanandroidTonclank transmitted through some applications (see list below), which allows the reception of orders without the user's knowledge and leaking important personal information.

So if you have installed any of the following applications, it is advisable to immediately remove and restore your device to original settings.

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