iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer

Re:iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer by seancron on Friday August 26, 2011 @04:01PM (#2929772)

Any reason you didn't include iPad sales? There are also Android tablets, so unless none of your sales are for Honeycomb users it might not be a fair comparison.

I'd also be interested in seeing how it changes when you take into account ad revenue and in-app purchases. Do the numbers stay as close when you add them, or does one platform take the lead?

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Re:iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer by bignoggins on Friday August 26, 2011 @04:25PM (#2929839)

Because the iPad version is a completely different app at a different price point, so it would skew the results. If I counted iPad/in-app/ad revenue it would nearly triple the iOS numbers.

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Re:iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer by acangiano on Friday August 26, 2011 @06:34PM (#2930214)

Damn, you are doing well. Is it just you behind this operation?

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Re:iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer by bignoggins on Saturday August 27, 2011 @03:00AM (#2931025)

only me full time. I hire contractors for graphics and some programming. Android is handled mainly by a friend of mine and we have a 50/50 revenue share.

I also have another iPhone app that sells much better but it came out recently so I haven't had a chance to port to iPad or Android yet.

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Re:iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer by hello_moto on Saturday August 27, 2011 @01:38PM (#2931983)

Is the 50-50 revenue share for all revenue or only for Android?

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Re:iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer by bignoggins on Saturday August 27, 2011 @02:47PM (#2932127)

android only

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