Here is a picture for the Chinese iOS App market: ranks No.2 by downloads in the planet, unproportionally comes in 8th when it comes to revenue. At the 2012 China Mobile Internet Innovation Carnival, mobile app analytics service App Annie said that every iOS app download generated about $0.03 on average in China, which is only 1/10 of the average $0.28 generated from every download in the US and half of the $0.06 in Vietnam.
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It seems that Chinese developers are in a pickle. You can make users happy and satisfied, but you just can’t make them pay. “Many of the developers have accepted this reality and they turn to free apps and try to profit from ads. ” said Yu Junde from App Annie.
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