Google Due to Provide In-app Purchases This Month: Will It Make a Difference to Developers' Bottom Line?

Smartphones based on Google’s Android platform enjoyed tremendous popularity and sales in 2010. It appears Android phone sales overtook Apple’s iPhone in that period. However, while Android phone sales were generating healthy revenue, the same cannot be said for Android apps. Here’s what I summarized in this blog item less than two weeks ago.

Android Market 2010 Revenue Only 6% of Apple App Store Revenue

1. Android Market app sales generated a mere 6% of the revenues genearted by Apple’s App Store in 2010.

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