Android Overtakes Apple In Mobile Apps Downloaded; Still Behind On Downloads Per Device

October 25, 2011

Android Overtakes Apple In Mobile Apps Downloaded; Still Behind On Downloads Per Device 2

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The research folks over at ABI have some interesting news to report for Q2 2011. It appears that Android has officially passed Apple in the worldwide share of mobile apps. As of now, 44% of mobile apps belong to an Android device, while only 31% belong to an iOS device. However, ABI also made sure to point out that while Android now has a bigger market for app developers, iOS users on average actually double the amount of apps per device when compared to Android. The question I have for this study is if they considered iOS to be simply the iPhone or all iOS devices (so including the iPad and the iPod). Something tells me they only included the former, as I can't imagine that Android is selling better than all iOS devices by a combined 2:1, but I have been wrong before. What are your thoughts on this?

[via ABIresearch]

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Andrew Greenfield was born and raised in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. He is currently attending THE Ohio State University where he is majoring in Honors Industrial & Systems Engineering. He was allowed to pick a smartphone for college and has been surgically attached to his Evo ever since. When not playing around with his phone, Andrew enjoys playing frisbee, football, soccer, Super Smash Bros, fixing the technology for the technologically impaired, and making fun of M*chigan fans.