Top Grossing Apps on iPad, iPhone Are Costly

Distimo is out with its July report on the various app stores, their pricing and the top ranked apps. There's lots of great data in the report. Here are the big bullets provided by the company:

You can take a look at the report for more. I'll briefly highlight two charts that struck me.

All the app stores have a similar proportion of free to paid apps, except Android which has a much higher percentage of free apps: 

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The top grossing apps on the iPad and iPhone are much more expensive than the average and it seems to indicate a pretty healthy willingness to pay on the part of Apple users. This will undoutedly make the iOS platform more attractive to certain kinds of publishers and developers. 

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