Getjar - cross platform app store data and statistics #mweb09

Ilja Laurs the CEO of Getjar spoke at the Mobile Web Summit - Getjar is a mobile applications store that pre-dates the iphone app store by many years.  They are now funded by Accel and doing great things in the space.  Here's a few stats from the presenatation:

- getjar has done 450m downloads to date - currently running at 35m downloads per month

- 46k apps for all major platforms

- 200k developer accounts

- 35k active beta testers

- have grown strongly since launch of the iphone appstore - expanded app market beyond iphone

- aim to provide "everything for consumers'' - support all platforms, all types of apps, all types of device

- aim to provide ''everything for developers'' - tools, distribution, monetisation

- 1% of apps created by established companies - 99% are small 1-3 man shops

- Google maps has 300 different builds on the getjar site!

- Getjar now focusing on improving search and discovery by aligning results to segments e.g countries, devices, platforms - have the scale to do this

- also offering billing - in-app billing 7* more effective than SMS billing in tests

You can find getjar in the mjelly directory

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