Want all 25,000 iPhone apps? That will be $72,442.69.
While RIM, Microsoft and Palm ready their mobile app stores for release this year, the one that inspired them all, Apple’s App Store, continues to chug along at an impressive pace. The store now features more than 25,000 applications, according to numbers from the site 148Apps. And after hitting 20,000 just a few weeks ago, the pace seems to still be accelerating, as Apple 2.0 points out.
But I’m more interested in the money aspect of these huge numbers. For example, if you tried to buy every app in the App Store at once, it would cost you $71,442.69, according to 148apps’ numbers.
The most popular price? While you might assume it would be free, it’s actually $0.99 - by a long shot. 10,274 apps cost $0.99 versus 6,044 that are free. The next closest is of course $1.99, which 3,302 apps sell for. That’s interesting in light of the news that RIM’s BlackBerry App World will have a minimum price set at $2.99 for apps (though there will be free ones). As I’ve talked about, that could limit the crap applications, but it will also undoubtedly limit the potential popularity of the store.
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