Poll results: How much do you spend on apps and games per year?
We asked you yesterday how much do you spend on apps and games on average per year, regardless of the platform you use, and the most popular answer was nada, as more than half of our respondents say they never pay for apps. About 26% spend up to $10 annually, 14% dish out up to $50, and just roughly 2% spend something more tangible, in the $100-$500 range.
The tide has turned on the way developers profit from apps, too, with games and in-app purchases accounting for nearly 90% of the global revenues. Needless to say, it's games that count for the vast majority of revenue for the Google and Apple stores, and that's where the freemium model started, and now proliferates, forcing kids and parents alike to spend sometimes vast amount of money on those pesky time-wasters.
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