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Developers of paid apps for Google's Android Marketplace are having a much tougher time monetizing their apps than their counterparts developing for Apple's App Store, according to a new report from Distimo released this week. Distimo got some flak from some quarters for its April report, in which highlighted the growing number of apps in the Android Marketplace but didn't touch on how well Android developers were able to monetize paid apps.
The May report addresses that question and the answer would appear to be, "Not very well."


Nearly 80 percent of paid applications in the Android Marketplace have been download fewer than 100 times, the Dutch mobile apps researcher said in its May report. To date, just two paid Android apps have been downloaded more than half a million times worldwide, as compared to six paid applications in Apple's App Store for iPhone that Distimo found had been downloaded that many times in just two months in the U.S. alone.