Apple, the Bizarre Game
Apple is the big buzz. Whenever it innovates and presents something it creates news. People are somewhat fascinated about all Apple’s devices- iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. But, above all, iPhone is the most popular among all. They called it- a magical device. This is because of the vast functionalities and attractive design of the device that lures and steals everybody’s heart.
Apple Inc. is smashing big money with the sales of Apple devices; meanwhile it is also counting on the apps development and downloads. Also, it gives freedom and flexibility to those who can create applications and put them for sale on the Apps Store. For the huge marketing and sales facilities, Apple charges them with 30% of royalty. You may think that is this huge amount of royalty being charged worth? Or why development companies need to put great amount of their hard work straight into the Apple’s pocket. And the fact is that the Apple has created the bizarre game and many development companies are the active players who develop apps and pays 30 percent of the royalty with smile.
Top Reasons to get on the Apple’s Apps Store
Let’s understand why people pay huge royalty amount to the Apps Store. There are not one but many reasons that people willingly and happily get ready to pay direct 30 % of the royalty to Apple after putting many efforts in the development and design processes of these applications. Some of the top reasons are mentioned below.
• Because it’s Apple Apps Store, the brand works!
• The biggest app promotion & sale platform
• User’s reliability with the platform is of great concern
• Without spending money you can promote and sell your iOS applications
• Safe and secure apps promotional and easy earning
What Kind of Apple’s Applications can go great in 2012?
It’s simple! Just follow the Apple’s trend to know what is popular on the Apps Store. There is no rocket science in finding what is in at the Apple’s App Store. You just need to search a concrete data that shows the sales and download record.
There have been more than 25 billion applications already downloaded from the Apps Store. It’s a huge number from where you can judge or find how much popularity your apps can get on the Apple platform. It may happen that you don’t hope for a bigger success for your apps, but it may come and surprise you.
Every development company who is associated in apps development process wants to gain the popularity on the global level so that they can increase their revenue. Game apps development is the first best choice as they get immensely popular, that’s what the Apple graph shows to us. Job applications are another option as this is in the air these days.
What is Most Popular on the Apple Store?
Before knowing the data about the popularity of the Apple’s platform, we must know about the top users of the Apple devices. And it is equally important to know about the users of iOS applications. Beware of media hype and mobile myth, as this data is the crux of Global Mobile Statistic 2012 report. Some fast facts:
• There are more than 1.2 billion mobile Web users in the world
• Korea (Republic) and Japan are top two countries that has largest active mobile users with the percentage of 91.0 and 87.4 respectively
• China is the topmost country that has largest Internet mobile users than any other
• Korea, Japan, Sweden, Australia, Finland, Hong Kong, Portugal, Luxembourg, Singapore and Australia are the top 10 nations that have the largest active Internet mobile users
• These top 10 countries have good financial stability, and if we forecast on the basis of GDP, Hong Kong is the best future economic stability than any other
• The active mobile Internet users in urban China and Japan are almost double of that the US users
From this data, you can predict which nation you have to target for the mobile application developments as these are the top potential prospects.
Apple’s App Store is the best to follow in this case. We can get the exact idea what is currently famous on the store. By following top 10 trends at the Apps Store we can get close to a best iPhone app development idea. As the US people top the Apple’s device users’ chart, we need to check their trend about what they prefer most on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
American Apple’s Trend
These are the tree topmost things that people in the US searched on their Apple devices:
• Media and entertainment
• Travel and mapping
• Banking and finance
Media and entertainment: Social networking, local info, news, music, games videos, sports, blogs and product reviews are the main concerns. More than 50% on an average of the users for the first four prefer checking their applications and not the browsers. The rest (sports, blogs, product reviews) searches come to around 30-40 % for the same scenario. Nevertheless, games, music and social networking are on the top demand list.
Travel and mapping: In this, maps and directions are searched through the applications by more than 50% users as compare to browsers. Research travel, check travel reviews and check travel itinerary have the percentage ratio between 25-45 % and this is increasing with pace, if we compare it with the last year.
Banking and finance: For checking bank accounts, conduct bank transactions, and budgeting 35-45% of Americans use apps, while others prefer browsers.
Now, from the various data, you may have the idea that in which particular direction the wind is blowing so to follow the Apple’s trend one must build or create apps for the iPhone or any other iOS devices as per the current demand of the market.
Millions of applications are getting downloaded from the Apple’s Apps Store. You can just forecast the big opportunities out there. Create and sell top apps for iPhone judging the trend. You can hire Apple applications developers to create applications.
