Long tail fails to wag.
Distimo's newest report paints a top-heavy chart-dominated picture of the app stores that will surprise few seasons industry watchers.
It found that 20 per cent of all free apps and 80 per cent of all paid apps have been downloaded fewer than 100 times on the Google Android Market worldwide to date.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the scale, 96 apps have been downloaded more than 5 million times in the Android Market, with Google Maps achieving 50 million plus.
The report concluded that it is more difficult for apps on Android Market than Apple App Store to monetise using a one-off fee.
It said that only two paid apps have been downloaded more than half a million times in the Google store against six for iPhone.
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And in the games space, there were five Android titles over 250,000 worldwide, and ten for iPhone in the US alone in two months.
Some of this comes down to the dynamism of the charts. It seems that the refresh rate of top app charts is significantly higher in the Apple App Store.
In April, for example, 94 different apps figures in the iPhone top ten free or paid), but only 26 on Android.
Here are the percentages of Android apps that have achieved certain download totals
100 downloads
19.6 per cent
100-999 downloads
32.2 per cent
1,000-49,999 downloads
41.6 per cent
50,000- 499,999 downloads
5.6 per cent
Over 500,000 downloads
1.0 per cent
There are more stats on the Distimo site.
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