Half as many free iPhone apps hit app store as paid apps
It seems the rush of free iPhone applications is slowing. Today, for example there were four applications released in the free section: Clowdy Photo Blogger, Vecka, Writing Pad, and Quitter. However, there were eight new applications for the iPhone which cost money: eWallet, Jade, Kenkou, Moo Box, Shout It, Sketches, SuperPong, and Tiny Violin. Most of these applications are just updates to previously released apps. However, it does seem developers now have a incentive to update their applications more often since, by default, when you browse all applications recently released applications are the first to show up.
So, what’s the big deal. Well, if you look at the current iTunes store there are 882 applications. Of these 882 there are 231 which are free, leaving 651 as paid applications. Thus, if things keep moving in the way they are now this means that the ratio of free-to-paid applications will rise from 35% on up. This is a good sign for the Frugle people out there.
Let’s just hope the folks at google keep this in mind when they open their app store for the android os.