Downloads generated by the top 100 apps increased 14-fold between October and December 2011.
The latest report from app watcher Distimo focuses on Amazon and Android Market, and shows that Amazon is still a long way behind the Google hub. But it is catching up.
Here are the headline numbers (and since the Amazon Appstore is only available in the US, all figures, both for the Amazon Appstore and the Google Android Market cover the US only):
• Of all the apps available in both stores, 110 generated at least $200 each day in one of the stores during the last week of January. 42 of these applications generated more revenue in the Amazon Appstore than in Google Android Market. Of the total income these 110 apps generated in both stores, 28 per cent was generated in the Amazon Appstore.
• The launch of the Kindle Fire and the 2011 holiday season helped downloads of the top 100 apps in the Amazon Appstore to jump 14-fold in December 2011, compared to two months earlier.
• 50 per cent of all apps in the Amazon Appstore are also available in Google Android Market.
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• The Google Android Market has about 14 times more apps available than the Amazon Appstore. But in December and January, the number of new apps in Android Market was only five times higher.
• During the last seven months, the proportion of paid apps in Android Marker declined from 38 per cent to 32 per cent.
* In the Amazon Appstore, the proportion of paid apps is stable at around 65 per cent.
• The average price of the top 100 paid apps in the Amazon Appstore is 40 per cent lower than in the Google Android Market. This could be because Amazon sets the prices.
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