Windows Phone 7 Apps

At the recent iPhone OS 4.0 launch Steve Jobs gave some figures about the iPad and iPhone sales. So far in total a staggering 85million units with iPhone OS has been sold. Out of those products, the least popular one seems to be the iPad, and that has still sold 450.000 units in about a week since release. Currently, there are 3.500 Apps available for the iPad, and in this first week a staggering 3.500.000 Apps have been sold.

Now no one is saying that Windows Phone 7 is going to be as spectacular success as the iPhone has been. But there will be a large number of units sold. In a few years, smart phones will be as cheap as the regular cell phones, the standard phones to have will be what is now considered smartphones. As we will see prices drop the market will expand in to the developing countries and grab large market shares. And a big share of those new units will host Windows Phone 7 or following OS. With the mobile data traffic predicted to increase multiple times in a matter of years and more accessibility to smartphones, it's a safe bet a lot of that traffic will be App data being sent back and forth.

The Apps market seems like it has exploded, some would even say saturated. But in reality it's just about to explode. App stores in general charging 30% of the price for helping hosting, offering marketing opportunity, distributing and handling money transactions for the actual sales. When thinking about it, that isn't a great deal, it's an astonishing deal. What manufacturer wouldn't want to have that kind of deal? To be able to literally access and sell a product to the entire world, whenever the customer see it fit, and only be charged 30% of the products price is amazing. The future App markets will have turnovers in the billion dollar range. And with Apple and Google acquiring mobile add companies, there are even more ways for App makers to make revenue as analysts says the trend for mobile add revenue is constantly climbing.

If you start learning how to develop Apps for Windows Phone 7 now before it's release, you will have the opportunity to cut a slice of the profit cake.