iPhone Beating E-Readers at Their Own Game?
Dienstag, 3. November 2009With the iPhone still the hottest smartphone, there’s much speculation about how its future will pan out. For some the money’s on gaming, but new research from Flurry is surprisingly different: eBook apps are overtaking games in the App Store.
Flurry’s analysis involved tracking the number of applications submitted to the iTunes App Store per month since its inception. A simple comparison between the percentage of apps falling into the games category versus those under the books category reveals that between launch and August of this year, games outnumbered book apps and dedicated books in the catalog, comprising some 16-17% of all apps in July and August of 2009. But in late August of this year, book apps, which had been growing all along, overtook games, and by October games were just 13% of apps while books were 20% of the total.
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/iphone-beating-e-readers-their-own-game
