Android weather profits
By Asha

Mobile Research Specialists research2guidance has just released a detailed monthly report on the Android market.  One of the interesting tidbits in the report is that Weather category Apps are the most profitable in the Android Market

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Just by choosing the less competitive and more price-intensive category, developers can lift their potential revenue by 900% above average.

At the end of August 2011 the average application had generated nearly $2,500 since it has been published. The total average cumulative revenue from paid downloads varied from $300 to $21,000 per category.

Although nearly a quarter of all apps downloaded on Android Market are games, the monetization potential of these apps is rather mediocre. Intense competition significantly reduces the potential revenue. Unsurprisingly, the smallest category of Weather apps has generated by far the highest average revenue per app in the store.

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