400,000 apps!!

[btgusto]

400,000 apps in the App Store have never been downloaded says report

Even though I dislike that site, they posted an interesting article based on an analytic that shows that 400,000 of the 650,000 in the apple app store have NEVER been downloaded. EVER! NOT EVEN ONCE. I'm sure the same test would show the same statistic for android and WP but to my friend and others who claim that their app store is bigger-- Take THAT!

Quality over quantity. I know there are apps that WP is still missing but WP8 will change that. We don't need clutter just Quality

 

[baseballbert]

Interesting article that supports the actual bells and whistles ON the phone and not the apps you can put on it.

 

[sinime]

That is interesting and I believe it... I coded an app as a test run to see how the process went as far as coding, compiling and submitting an app to iOS' App Store. It's a little app that I actually use at work, anyhow, it has had about 3 paid downloads, all of which were immediately after it showed up in the store for initial release and an update I submitted. It seems people don't see some apps if they are not at the top of the list. The main app I submitted, after the test run app, gets a couple of downloads a week, but nothing spectacular.

As contrast, the second app I submitted to iOS has a version on webOS. The first month or 2 on webOS had around 70 copies sold, a month in on the iOS version and I'm sitting around 10 copies sold.

BTW, coding is a hobby for me, so the low numbers aren't necessarily something to be worried about. Although it would be nice to break even at least... Considering the $100 per year fee to be a developer on iOS.