Android: 80 Percent Of Paid Apps Have <100 Downloads

We spotted this today:

"Looking at paid applications in the Google Android Market, downloads are significantly lower than they are for free applications. The percentage of all free applications that have been downloaded less than 100 times is 24.8%, and the percentage of paid applications that have been downloaded less than 100 times worldwide is 79.3%."

Statistics Source: Fortune

The summary is that you cannot make money yet on Android. We have written about Apple's iTunes userbase and the mobile app market statistics before. And lets not forget the latest entrant: Nook statistics.