Only 0.1% of Android Paid Apps Sell More Than 50,000 Copies

Commenting on Microsoft’s Windows Phone app pricing strategy earlier today, I wrote The mental baseline price for iPhone apps is somewhere between free and $1.99. For Android users, the baseline is simply free.

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While things may have changed since then, back in March 2010 98.9% of all apps in the Android Market were free ones. Even if that has shifted since then, the number of paid apps is very small.

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