14 DAY TRIAL // Distimo is providing an insight into Apple’s ecosystem by comparing the activity surrounding the company’s iPhone, iPad, and Mac App Stores in its latest report covering not only Apple’s distribution channels, but those of its competitors too.
The latest Distimo “publication” covers the Apple App Stores for iPad, iPhone, and the Mac App Store.
Additionally, it takes a deeper look at the BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog, and Windows Phone 7 Marketplace in the United States during February 2011.
On the Apple front, Distimo contacted Softpedia with a few key findings.
These included the fact that less than two months after the launch of the Mac App Store, a top 300 Mac application already generated half the revenue of a top 300 iPad application on average.
The analytics company found that the average selling price of the top 300 applications was seven times higher in the Mac App Store ($11.21) than on the iPhone ($1.57), and almost three times higher than on the iPad ($4.19).
Distimo notes that the Mac App Store had 2,225 applications available almost two months post-launch, whereas the App Store for iPad had 8,099 applications two months post-launch.
On entertainment, Distimo said, “Although on the Mac gaming has been less popular than on Windows, the Mac App Store promises a bright future for Mac gaming: there are already 646 games in this store (29%), and 39% of the most popular applications are games as well.”
According to Distimo, only 12% of the applications found in the Mac App Store are free - the lowest proportion of free apps in any of the company’s stores.
Finally, Distimo tells us that the 300 most popular free and 300 most popular paid applications in the three App Stores are promoted by 1,014 publishers, of which 173 publishers distribute apps in more than one of these stores.