{"id":697842,"date":"2010-03-22T12:06:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-03-22:article\/419-research-iphone-apps-average-price-is-falling"},"modified":"2010-03-22T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:06:06","slug":"research-top-iphone-apps-average-price-is-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/697842","title":{"rendered":"Research: Top iPhone Apps’ Average Price Is Falling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Increasingly, the most popular iPhone apps are the free or lower-priced ones, according to mobile app store trend monitor Distimo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite Apple’s keenness to put high-ticket downloads like satnav apps on its Featured area, the average price of the most popular iPhone apps fell by 15 percent between December 1 and February 28, its monthly report says. The sharpest fall was in Australia (27 percent).\n<\/p>\n

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Europe spends most on its leading apps on average. The average price of the most popular apps there was $3.86 in February; the U.S. has the lowest average price of the most popular apps, $2.43. “This is due to the large number of turn-by-turn navigation applications covering different regions in Europe.”<\/p>\n

That could change over time, with Nokia (NYSE: NOK<\/a>) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG<\/a>) starting to offer free turn-by-turn navigation.<\/p>\n

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Some apps are beginning to drop the download fee in favour of in-app subscriptions. But there’s still an interesting and growing market for high-priced downloads – I recently coughed up \u00a319.99 for the official F1 2010<\/a> live timing and track position app.\n<\/p>\n

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Increasingly, the most popular iPhone apps are the free or lower-priced ones, according to mobile app store trend monitor Distimo. Despite Apple’s keenness to put high-ticket downloads like satnav apps on its Featured area, the average price of the most popular iPhone apps fell by 15 percent between December 1 and February 28, its monthly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":700,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Vxw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}