11. iOS controls most of the high-end device market
Android almost every other area
Windows Phone gains developer interest, but not users
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18. Quartz - These are the 25
most popular mobile apps
in America
19.
20. Guardian - Women taking the lead when it comes to mobile
App types & usage
0
12,5
25
37,5
50
Health Entertainment Lifestyle Social networking Games
Men Women
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Programming languages,
Mobile app developers
Other
27
C#
23
Objective-C
24
C/C++
26
Java (Android)
38
HTML5
42
31. 47% of iOS developers, 42% of Android developers
use something other than the native language
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33. Vision Mobile, Developer Economics Q3 2014: State of the Developer Nation
Platform priority
13%
3%
10%
32%
42%
Android iOS Windows Phone BlackBerry 10 Others
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0
0,725
1,45
2,175
2,9
July 2013 July 2014
No of platform targets
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App revenue
Haves
12%
Strugglers
19%
Poverty stricken
22%
Have nothings
47%
36. Majority of app businesses not sustainable with current revenue
50% of iOS developers, 64% of Android developers
below the ‘app poverty line” of $500 per app per month
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37. Games dominate app store revenues,
yet most games developers struggle
33% of developers make games
57% of those games make less than $500 per month
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0
17,5
35
52,5
70
Targets consumers Targets professionals Targets enterprise
Target users
39. Developers who target enterprises:
Twice as likely to be earning over $5k per app per month
Almost 3 times as likely to earn more than $25k per app per month.
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40.
41. Third party tools are a critical part of successful app businesses
The more tools a developer uses, the more money they make
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