App Sales != App Revenue<p>There are tons of apps on the Android market which make loads of money from advertising alone. Flurry doesn't track that. The model Amazon's AppStore uses is entirely different to the one Google Play uses: the appstore encourages app sales, google play encourages free apps with advertising. Remember, advertising is the core income source for Google.<p>To quote the Google Play terms, <the 30% "tax" imposed on app sales is going to carriers, not Google>. This is why when the Android Market was launched in 2008 didn't allow paid apps at all. Not only they didn't have payment processing integrated, the banned one of my apps (twice) in Octover 2008 (a month after the G1 launched) for integrating PayPal payments. This was their plan all along...
To anyone else who finds it hard to understand what this is measuring, it is supposedly [EDITED] the money that app-developers make per-active-user on in-app purchases (measuring some 'top applications' only). How it is determined is anybody's guess - even the original link [1] is quite opaque on the subject.<p>I'm not sure I can make the same leaps from this to statements like 'the decision to fork Android was a profitable lesson' (for Amazon) as the original links.<p>Please correct me if I have anything wrong here.<p>[1] <a href="http://blog.flurry.com/bid/83604/For-Generating-App-Revenue-Amazon-Shows-Google-How-to-Play" rel="nofollow">http://blog.flurry.com/bid/83604/For-Generating-App-Revenue-...</a>
Google Wallet is still a joke, i don't have a credit card and it is totally uncommon here in Germany. I have an Amazon account and a PayPal account, these are the two services i can pay with. Google Apps supports Direct Debit, what is the god damn problem? I would have spent probably 50 Euros for Android apps by now. You could believe Google want's to establish Ad revenue first before they make their payment system competitive.
The article basically concludes that iOS and Amazon users pay for apps, Android Market users don't. Ouch. Google really messed up the launch of Android Market and promoting apps worth paying for.