It’s no secret that Apple’s App Store has been leaps and bounds more succesful than Android’s comparable Market, but it isn’t often we get concrete data that shows just how poorly Android’s store is faring in comparison. Today Android developer Larva Labs has posted some of the sales figures for its top applications, and the results are not impressive: Larva has two apps in Android’s top paid apps list called Battle For Mars and RetroDefense, ranking #5 and #12 respectively, and between them the company has raked in an average of $62.39 per day over the last month. Ouch.
[via TechCrunch]
This is comparing apples with oranges. The Android Market is much younger than the App Store, and also there are much less Android phones around than iPhones and iPodTouches. I think it would be much more interesting to compare the Android Market with the App Store when it was as young as the Android Market it now.