"From the July, 2008 Apple started to sell about 300 million software applications for iPhone and iPod touch. It is not the perfect but maximum estimation from the whole research the matter came in light that Apple now will earn about $50 to $100 million revenue to sell its applications for the iPhone and iPod touch.
The estimation comes through last year which was about $32 billion by its applications for the software. We know or Steve Jobs also announce itself that most of the applications are free and about 100 million has been download by users in just last six weeks. “While most of those applications were free, Apple sold an average of $1 million a day in applications for a total of about $30 million in sales over the month,” in a interview Apple CEO Steve Jobs said.
According to the alleyinsider.com estimation Apple will earn $50-$100 Million Revenue from these, “Apple recently published the top 10 most-downloaded paid apps. Their average price is about $2.80. We’ll round that up to $3. That suggests Apple’s gross revenue from paid apps is $300 million. Apple takes a 30% cut, and gives 70% to developers. That’s $90 million for Apple, which we’ll round up to $100 million for simplicity’s sake.” these are major point. With the data we can also consider that Apple surely earn its revenue from its apps about $50-$100.
In the competition of Apple, BlackBerry announced to launch an application store till next March. The announcement comes in audience in October for the RIM users. It will be great experience for the RIM users and financial market also because RIM launches also touchscreen mobile phones with high featured.
Gartenberg concluded its, “When you’ve got the right technology, the right messaging, the right marketing, and the right product coming together at the right time, you can do a lot.” it means in the mobile phone market one more competitor is coming as BlackBerry in the industry of application and software. However, Nokia already acquire Symbian operating system.
