4. iOS controls most of the high-end device market
!
Android almost every other area
!
Windows Phone gains developer interest, but not users
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11. Quartz - These are the 25
most popular mobile apps
in America
12.
13. Men Women
Guardian - Women taking the lead when it comes to mobile
App types & usage
50
37,5
25
12,5
0
Health Entertainment Lifestyle Social networking Games
22. Programming languages,
Mobile app developers
HTML5
42
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Other
27
C#
23
Objective-C
24
C/C++
26
Java (Android)
38
23. 47% of iOS developers, 42% of Android developers
!
use something other than the native language
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25. Android iOS Windows Phone BlackBerry 10 Others
Platform priority
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13%
3%
10%
32%
42%
26. No of platform targets
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2,9
2,175
1,45
0,725
0
July 2013 July 2014
27. App revenue
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Haves
12%
Strugglers
19%
Poverty stricken
22%
Have nothings
47%
28. Majority of app businesses not sustainable with current revenue
50% of iOS developers, 64% of Android developers
below the ‘app poverty line” of $500 per app per month
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29. Games dominate app store revenues,
yet most games developers struggle
!
33% of developers make games
57% of those games make less than $500 per month
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30. Target users
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70
52,5
35
17,5
0
Targets consumers Targets professionals Targets enterprise
31. Developers who target enterprises:
!
Twice as likely to be earning over $5k per app per month
Almost 3 times as likely to earn more than $25k per app per month.
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32.
33. Third party tools are a critical part of successful app businesses
!
The more tools a developer uses, the more money they make
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