It doesn't look like Google will be challenging Apple for dominance in the app store space anytime soon:

So le's imagine for a moment that we're a typical Android developer in terms of earnings, even though I think i's more likely we're on the high end of the curve. Assuming we are the average though, there would need to be over 2,500 other Android developers to get to $5M total sales. The last estimates I heard put the number of applications at around 12,000, so there's probably around 4,000 developers total. That means over half of the developers need to be earning what we do to reach $5M a month. However, we know from experience that below position 25 on the top selling games the earnings drop off to almost zero so it's very unlikely that anyone below that position is earning much money at all.

Apple has the lead, and seems to be sprinting away. If Google is going to catch up, they need to find a way to help developers make money :)

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