Apple’s Famous App Store is perhaps the most popular app store ever  this gets proven from the shear participation of people and the number of Apps it has i.e Over 50,000 beating the nearest competitor RIM Blackberry which has just over 2000 by quite a margin.Have you ever wondered how much would Apple be earning from App store, recently a Wall Street Journal Article estimates around $150 million considering the fact that Apple earns aroung 30% of the commision on every App sold at the App store.

However Apple’s earning via hardware i.e iPhone selling earns revenue arounf 2.8 billion per year.But the Bottom line  is that App Store Apps cost apple nothing , the commisions are pure profits. The research,innovativation and the developers are all outside works. In addition to this as the Apps in App Store increase the scope and the utility of the Apps would also increase in different sectors and this would inturn trigger the iPhone Sales.

The article states some interesting facts that Apple’s research is more of smart work and while Apple spends around 3.4% of its fiscal 2008 revenue on R&D, compared with 6.2% spent by RIM and 12%-15% by Microsoft, Google, Motorola and Palm in their latest fiscal years…[more on WSJ] App Store is a master Stoke from Apple which has not only accelerated the revolution of Touch which was brought by the iPhone but also helped in keeping the iPhone at top position.

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