My Humble Android Sales Figures

Thanks for sharing. I make GPS apps for the iPhone, and this indicates to me that I should continue to wait and see on the Android platform.<p>I've read that while there are a lot of Android phones, the app buying behavior is much less profitable than on the iPhone. I think iPhone users are just conditioned to spend money!

What is the exposure strategy like? When you update, do you get back on the frontpage? Is there a way of appearing directly to android users like the iPhone has? What about rogue developers and spammers - can they not keep releasing the same app over and over again and appearing at the top of the store?

Interesting idea for an app - is there a huge market for this? The biggest parking lot I ever have to worry about is Disneyland or the airport, and I always just snap a photo of the lot ID. Before I had a camera phone, I just wrote it on a slip of paper and put it in my wallet.<p>So for a 'novelty' app with no marketing, it doesn't seem too bad.<p>I also just got the Droid, and I'm seeing a lot of "updated for droid" or "not compatible with droid" comments. No doubt the Android platform will open a much broader market, but like the PC, you have to worry about more hardware.

Counting yesterday, the ratio of Android to iPhones was about 4:5 among people I personally know. Of course, a lot of them are early adopters and that ratio was changed due to the Droid release.

There were 23000 downloads of the free version, and 220 copies paid for at $2. But it's not clear from the post what, if anything, differs between the two versions.

You call it humble; I call it encouraging.<p>I've been considering developing an Android application since I got my HTC Hero about a month ago. The only reason I haven't is because... well, I have other things to do. The potential to eat for free for a while is a good push in the right direction :)

From the graph, it looks like the Droid launch was responsible for an order of magnitude jump in sales.<p>With those kinds of growth rates, the Android marketplace could rival the iPhone very quickly.