Distimo tracks trends in the UK's mobile app stores
Where is the money?
The release of Tom Tom’s iPhone navigation application single-handedly caused a big jump in the total price of the top 100 Apple applications. Navigation applications are by far the most expensive catgeory of applications in the UK but games also do well in terms of the top grossing applications. For example, on Sep 18, there were 10 games and 5 navigation apps among the top 20 highest grossing applications in the UK. Entertainment remains the most popular application category overall.
Apple Vs Android
Android users seem to be quite different from Applers based on the applications they choose. To me this looks a bit like the Linux-Apple split in the PC world. The highest ranked paid app on Apple in Aug was Camera Genius while the top free app was Sky Sports football score centre. The top paid apps on Android are all admin tools like Power Manager Full. Android users have a curious obsession with the weather putting The Weather Channel at the top of the free apps and a couple of weather widgets in the paid top 10. Social networking applications are more popular with Apple users. Is the iPhone for pleasure-seeking, social butterflys? Are Android fans serious, technical types who don’t trust any piece of hardware as pretty as the iPhone? Answers on a postcard to the TechCrunch Europe cod psychology department.