How Much Money Does a Billion iPhone Apps Get You? Not That Much

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Stan Schroeder
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How Much Money Does a Billion iPhone Apps Get You? Not That Much
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Short version: not that much.

Long version: Anywhere between $20 and $45 million; when you count in LSVP's approximation that the ratio of free to paid apps, is somewhere between 1:15 and 1:40, and O'Reilly's estimate that the mean price for paid apps is $2.65. Multiply these numbers and you get revenue of $70-$160 million; Apple's 30%, which is how much they get from each sold application puts their chunk of the cake at $20-45 million.

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