Windows Store
About Distimo Distimo has a very clear objective: to make the app market transparent. The company was born out of the frustration of a lack of insights into the performance of apps and the manual work needed to track important metrics. Our goal is to provide the best and most actionable app intelligence for anyone who wants to compete in the app market. Our data-driven team seeks to help developers, brands and financial services companies gain actionable, timely and factual knowledge of whats happening daily in the global app market. We offer three core services: App Analytics, to track all of your important app data across all major app stores and ad networks; Conversion Tracking, to measure your full app sales funnel from discovery and campaigns to app launch; and Market Data, to analyze the daily download and revenue volumes of any app in the market. Founded in 2009, Distimo is a privately held company based in The Netherlands. Follow us on Twitter, read our blog or learn more at http://www.distimo.com.
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In comparison to the other app stores, the Windows Store still has a long way to go, as the Apple App Store and Google Play currently store over 600K applications. Throughout this publication the Windows Store will be compared to the Apple Mac App Store (another desktop app store) and the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, Microsofts other app store. Please note that Microsoft also released the Windows Phone 8 Marketplace, which is not discussed in this report. The Apple Mac App Store has been around for almost two years now, but only stores 12,998 applications, i.e., within a couple of months between the announcement and the official launch of Windows 8, Microsoft managed to already outperform the Mac App Store in the number of available applications. Looking at the distribution of free and paid applications, a big difference between the Windows Store and the others can be distinguished. Most of the app stores have a much bigger proportion of paid applications. Even in Google Play, which is known for the proportion of free content; about 35% of all applications are paid. In the Apple Mac App Store, 84% of all content is paid.
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Although this 5% difference doesnt seem like a big difference, the difference in the average prices in the three stores is high. The average price of all applications is $13.32 and $14.29 in Windows Store for the desktop, while the average price in the Surface store is only $4.87.
This makes sense when looking at the different characteristics of the app store. The Windows Store x84 and x64 are desktop app stores, and might therefore be best compared to the Apple Mac App Store. The average application price in the Apple Mac Store is $12.55, while the Surface store is a tablet store that might best be compared to other tablet stores. When looking at the average application price in the Apple App Store for iPad, $4.44, the average price among Surface applications is on par. The average price among the top 100 applications is a whole different story. The average price among the top 100 applications in Windows Store for desktop was $3.67, while the average price of top applications in Windows Store for Surface was $2.98.
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Not only is Microsoft doing a good job in promoting local content, it also means that Microsoft successfully persuaded local publishers to develop for a platform and an app store that still has yet to prove itself. For example, from the worldwide total of 21,183 applications only 13,844 (65%) are also available in North America, while in contrast this ratio is 98% in the Apple Mac App Store and 88% in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. We publish app leaderboards for all countries on a daily basis on the Distimo website, so if you want to keep track or want to see what content is popular in a particular country, please have a look at our leaderboards.
ALREADY THREE TIMES THE APPLE MAC APP STORE IN TERMS OF DOWNLOADS
Although the Windows Store has only been officially online for one month, the daily download volumes among the top 300 most popular applications in the United States are already higher than they are in the in the Apple Mac App Store.
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For paid downloads among the top 300 most popular paid applications, the Apple Mac App Store is larger (5x), but with software like Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja and Microsoft Office, it could very well be that the Windows Store soon will overtake the Apple Mac App Store for paid downloads as well. In the Windows Store in the United States over 200K applications have already been downloaded on a daily basis in the top 300, while this number is 80K in the Apple Mac App Store.
RECAP
Looking at the first findings about the Windows Store it is clear that there is a lot of potential. This is not only because the number of potential customers will quickly grow because of the reach of Windows, but also because Microsoft seems to have copied a few best practices from its competitors and implemented them well. Splitting the tablet and desktop store and focusing on local content are both promising strategies. We will keep you updated about the progress of the Windows Store, and weve also opened up our analytics tool for Windows Store. If you are developer and looking for the best app store analytics out there, you should sign up for Distimo App Analytics. If you are just interested in the content that is available in Windows Store, please look at our daily updated leaderboards.
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TRACK DAILY DOWNLOADS AND REVENUES OF ANY APP WITH DISTIMO APPIQ
Distimo AppIQ allows users to: Track and compare app downloads and competitor app downloads: Analyze an apps market share and compare download figures versus a competitors in one chart. The chart shows the daily downloads and can also be aggregated per week or month. Events such as price changes, featured listings and version updates are also included, and allow the user to analyze the influence of each event on downloads. Analyze competing app revenues including those from in-app purchases: View daily revenues from competing apps side-by-side with the their own app and get extensive insight into the revenue generation of different business models, revenue per country, and platform. Identify the most popular and upcoming new apps: The Leaderboard provides the daily rankings of all applications, and can be viewed by app store, country, category, device, and free/paid/gross. All of the major app stores are supported, and for iOS and Android, the daily volumes per individual app are also provided. AppIQ users see the daily downloads and revenue from in-app purchases and one-off fees. Developers can also use the Leaderboard to see how many downloads are needed to achieve a certain ranking on any given day. Learn more about AppIQ at www.distimo.com/app-analytics/appiq.
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ABOUT DISTIMO
Distimo has a very clear objective: to make the app market transparent. The company was born out of the frustration of a lack of insights into the performance of apps and the manual work needed to track important metrics. Our goal is to provide the best and most actionable app intelligence for anyone who wants to compete in the app market. Our data-driven team seeks to help developers, brands and financial services companies gain actionable, timely and factual knowledge of whats happening daily in the global app market. We offer three core services: App Analytics, to track all of your important app data across all major app stores and ad networks; Conversion Tracking, to measure your full app sales funnel from discovery and campaigns to app launch; and Market Data, to analyze the daily download and revenue volumes of any app in the market. Founded in 2009, Distimo is a privately held company based in The Netherlands. Follow us on Twitter, read our blog or learn more at http://www.distimo.com.
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