Study says mainland becomes second largest iphone app market

Asians are more likely to download free apps, local apps are popular (reporter Lin Chiling) According to foreign media reports, the application store analysis agency Distimo New research shows that the mainland has become the iphone application of the second largest market. The report said that in the past 6 months, some European countries in the App Store in the iphone application downloads declined, but the Asian countries have significantly increased.　　Mainland China recently became the second largest iphone app download market after the US. South Korea's iphone apps are downloading more downloads than Germany and France. Interestingly, there are no gaming classes in the South Korean app store, so all downloaded apps are game-free.　　In other countries, the game is the largest category of downloads. Asians are more likely to download a free version of the app.　　The report says 300 of the most popular downloads in Asian countries and regions are equivalent to the U.S. market, but the amount of paid application downloads and overall revenue lags behind those in the US and Europe, only 1/3. Distimo says Asians seem happy to spend money on the iphone.　　The survey shows that Asia's iphone revenue is 2/3 of the United States, the reason is higher than the two sides of the paid application download ratio of 1/3, because the Asian pay application average price of 2.62 U.S. dollars, higher than the U.S. region's 1.48 U.S. dollars. In addition, localized applications are more prevalent in Asia. iphone users in mainland China, Hong Kong, China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have obvious localized preferences. In mainland China, 65% of the top 300 free applications are endemic in the region.