Global developers: IOS, Android, WP which is the most profitable?

Recently, the famous mobile ecosystem analysis company VisionMobile released the first quarter of 2014 developer Economics report. The report has assembled more than 7,000 developers from 127 countries around the world to investigate the largest mobile developer ever to date. Compared with Android, which accounts for 80% of the world's market share, the number of developers who use Android as the target platform has increased significantly, but most developers still use iOS as their preferred platform, and their loyalty is by no means comparable to Android. In terms of revenue, it is extremely surprising that the most popular mobile application profit model is not paid downloads, nor free value-added and advertising, but obscure e-commerce.

From the Q3 quarter of 2013 to the Q1 quarter of 2014, although the use of electricity as a profit model accounted for only 8%, but compared to other, but has the most significant growth. In the survey report, VisionMobile said, "So far, in all the applications we've tracked, the average revenue per application of the developers using E-commerce is 2750 dollars per month, the highest of all profit models." ”

From 2013 only accounted for the application store sales volume of 11% to today's rapid growth, the electrical business income gradually became a very important part of the application economy. Previously, Amazon had released the mobile Associates API, allowing developers to sell physical products through their apps and get paid. The rise of the e-business model marks a shift in the role of developers from innovators to value-added retailers, and Apple and Google will also be involved in the future.

There is also a strong contrast between the income of application developers on different platforms. On iOS, developers earn an average of 500-1000 dollars per application, while on Android, the average revenue for each application is just 101-200 dollars per month, and most of the revenue comes from advertising, app buying and other monetization strategies. and Windows Phone is less, with an average monthly income of 1-50 dollars per application. 26% of application developers believe that built-in advertising is still the most effective form of profitability, especially on platforms where direct purchase demand is fairly weak.

Most developers received less than $500 trillion/month in applications in the global application economy of $68 billion trillion last year. Data show that 60% of Android developers are on the poverty line, compared to most iOS developers, with more than 50% of iOS developers averaging more than $500 a month per tyrants. 10% of iOS developers have an average monthly income of 10,000 to 50,000 dollars per application, and 5% of developers have more than 50,000 dollars per month for each application.