According to Distimo, an "app store analytics" provider, 57%of applications from the Android Market are free. This is compared to iPhone's only 25% and Blackberry's 24% of free applications in their app stores. Does this mean that the Android Market will eventually push developers away because of the lack of money making opportunities?

London - Spotify, an ad-supported music streaming service, has launched its mobile applications for Apple's (NASD: AAPL) iPhone App Store and the Android Market for customers in the U.K., Sweden, France, Spain, Norway and Finland. The mobile application is only available to subscribers to the company's premium, ad-free version, which costs about $16.40 per month in the U.K. Spotify ...

With more than 20,000 apps, Google's Android Market doesn't quite have the cachet or the inventory of Apple's iPhone App Store, which boasts more than 100,000 applications. But quantity doesn't always beat quality. The Android Market has some useful apps in many categories, from games to social networking and multimedia. But when you want to get work done you need productivity ...

Everyone likes apps for their smartphones today, it seems like every smartphone maker is rolling out their own app store to take advantage of the popularity of applications on mobile phones. There is lots of competition between app stores and companies are pulling out the stops to grab the cash out of a user’s wallet. A

Do the prices people are willing to pay for a phone app depend on the device or the type of app? A comparison of July prices in the iPhone App Store and the Android Market by app analytics firm Distimo found that across broad categories such as entertainment, navigation, and tools the average price for the Top 100 paid apps was very similar for both mobile computing platforms. There were a few exc...

Spotify finally opened up its services for mobile users by launching apps for the iPhone and Android simultaneously. The music streaming service will be available to premium subscribers in the UK, Sweden, Spain, France and Norway. Both applications can be downloaded for free from the Apple app store or Android Market. [Via] /div>

Usually when we hear about Android Market and the iPhone App Store we hear about comparisons in terms of # of applications. But what about games? Surely games fit under the app umbrella to which they refer, but its also clear that games have a HUGE and yet unmet potential on mobile devices. It

I'm sure by now, we all know that it's pretty easy to make a few bucks by creating an app for Android or the iPhone. The hard part comes in when you're trying to make a living off those applications. Currently the Android Market is fairing pretty good compared to the iPhone App store simply because there are much fewer apps to choose from. In order to stay ahead of the game, Microso...

Distimo, a Dutch app store analytics firm, has finally completed their research on the six major mobile app stores: iTunes App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile.  Their findings analyzed store size, store growth, most popular applications, and where you can find the

The Distimo Report, July 2009 is now available and for download  and covers the Apple App Store and Google Android Market. Starting this month, they reported on cross app store trends. Pricing of applications in the Apple App Store and Android Market is quite similar, except for the Reference category which has a much higher average price on Google Android Market.The most popular games o...