Android Overtakes iOS In App Downloads In U.K., Germany, Russia. U.S. To Fo

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Android Overtakes iOS In App Downloads In U.K., Germany, Russia. U.S. To Follow Next Month

With Android accounting for the majority of smartphones worldwide at the moment, it?s finally also starting to become the most dominant player in apps, too.

Figures out today from analytics firm Xyologic note that Android now accounts for the majority of downloads in the U.K., Germany and Russia, and predicts that the U.S. will be the next to go Google in either March or April. This is a sea change from months past, when Apple ? the early mover in apps ? has always dominated in app download activity, despite the fact that it has been trailing other platforms in terms of users.

Xyologic says that this now means that Android is dominating in nine different countries in app downloads, representing a mix of advanced and still-developing markets. In addition to the U.K., Germany and Russia, Android became the dominant platform in Czech Republic, Poland and Portugal in August 2011; it took over in Brazil in October and Spain in November.

In all three markets named today, the gap between Apple and Android is fairly big: the U.K. had 90.9 million app downloads for iOS, with 99.1 million for Android. Germany saw 59.5 million app downloads for iOS and 64.9 million on Android; and Russia had 38.4 million iOS downloads with 41.9 million for Android.

In terms of which apps fare the best: Xyologic says Facebook is still dominating as the most popular app in the U.K., with 1.2 million downloads, with U.K. users in general favoring non-U.K.-specific apps. Of the top 100, in fact, only seven came from the U.K. market ? within those, the Sky Sports Football app from broadcaster Sky was the most popular.

Perhaps because of the language issue, in Germany, there was more interest in local content, with 16 apps in the top 100 local apps. And in Russia even more so, with seven of the top 20 apps in Russian. Russia was the only country, in fact, that had a native-language app as the most popular download of all. It?s a joke collection, ?Anekdoty.?

What this research doesn?t point out is how many of these apps are paid versus free on each platform, and what kind of an impact that has on downloads.

Interestingly, separate research from Canalys, also out today, found that on average, Android apps cost more than iOS apps. In the U.S., it would cost $374.37 to buy the top 100 paid apps on Android (working out to $3.74 per app), compared to $147 on iOS (or $1.47 per app). Moreover, in the U.S. App Store, 82 of the top 100 paid apps cost $0.99 each, while only 22 meet that price in the Android Market.

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http://techcrunch.co...low-next-month/

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to honor the truth, android apps are (very) expensive

Or free. I honestly have only purchased some games for my Android phone, and those were all through the Humble Android Bundle. I haven't found anything I couldn't do with free apps so far.

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And most apps on Android users download are actual apps.. 70% of apps on iOS people download are games.

What does that tell you?

That Android users are no fun! jk, no really do you have stats for that, I'm interested to see what the breakdown is.

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And most apps on Android users download are actual apps.. 70% of apps on iOS people download are games.

What does that tell you?

That Android users are no fun and iOS users take life less seriously? ;)

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Apparently the paid ones are more expensive on Android than they are on iOS, at least according to this analysis.

http://www.canalys.c...e-too-expensive

I have an Android Phone, iPod Touch, and Playbook. I find the Android and iPod apps cost around the same, some are free droid apps, some are free apple apps. Prices seem around the same for most things (excluding platform specific speciality apps, launchers, etc). However, the apps on my playbook may cost 6$, but iOS and Android have the same app for free.. so if anything the Playbook is the expensive one, android and iOS are around the same.

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