"Popular Android apps on average more expensive than iOS, equal satisfaction '- iphoneclub.nl

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 (13:57) | Bastiaan Vroegop

Client from the App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android indicate an average high rating for popular apps, according to a survey by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, that users of the top 200 has put side by side. both app stores Paid apps in the App Store scoring average 4.22 stars, while Google Play a score of 4.39 stars is achieved. Free iOS apps score in turn averaging 4.02 stars, while the average score 4.34 stars with free Android apps. Well there is a big difference in price for paid apps: iOS, you pay an average of $ 2.14 for an app in the top 200 paid apps in Android while averaging $ 3.91 must be filed for a top 200 app <. br />
A big difference is also reflected in the number of user reviews in both App Stores. The amount of reviews in paid apps in the iOS App Store was almost twice as large as in Google Play. In iOS 6 million (6,093,675) were reviews left, while Android was the number at more than three million (3,382,465). Android gets thick again double the number of reviews with free apps, tight 62 million (61,898,436) versus more than 26.7 million (26,719,317) in the iTunes App Store

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Munster also looked overlapping apps in the top 200 of the two App Stores (same app from the same developer) for the research. He came here from 38 paid and 74 free applications, the difference in review scores also just a little bit different: paid apps for iOS achieve average 4.22 versus 4.18 stars star on Android, and iOS applications free apps score 4.16 stars while Android is at 4.28 stars. Paid apps in the top 200 are on average 30 cents more expensive in the Google Play Store or the App Store.

Although research points to an average of more expensive apps in Google Play, according to research from Canalys April 2013 that three quarters of mobile app revenue comes from the iOS App Store. Google Play was for 18 percent of all sales charge.