China became the second largest after the United States consumer market iOS applications

App Store Distimo statistical analysis company has released a Apple App Store market performance in Asia research report, research covers China, Japan, Korea, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Sri Lanka countries.

Despite the past six months in Germany, France and other European countries, there iOS application downloads a weak decline, but in all Asian countries have achieved a crazy growth, especially China, is to become the second largest after the United States iOS applications the consumer market.

However, the proportion of paid downloads in Asia and Europe is still below the level of total income. Distimo report said the Asian market more inclined to download a free version of the consumer, rather than choose ad-free paid version. Most popular in Asia, iPhone applications are regional, in other areas not covered by the blitz.

Had mixed feelings, the strength of Chinese pink fruit was too strong, because Apple was in China last year opened limited functionality of the App Store, just a short time to achieve such results, so the American people can not help but shame.Inventory report highlights:

1, China has become the second largest after the U.S. consumer market iOS applications.

1, although the Korean population compared to the few in China, but the application downloads is very high, more than Germany and France.

2, in all countries, the game downloads are the highest category.

3, the Korean government banned the App Store to download games, so all of South Korea are non-game application download.

4, Asian countries and the proportion of the total paid to download the application was significantly lower than the United States and Europe, which is only 1 / 3, if you exclude Japan, pay the application to download is the United States and Europe the proportion of 1 / 6.

5, In-App Asian countries are still at a low level to buy.

6, Asian users prefer localized applications.

7, users of different countries in Asia like showing a very different applications, such as the Chinese market the most popular of 300 applications, 65 percent of the only popular in China.

8, the application of the localization trend in South Korea and other East Asian countries is particularly evident in India and Indonesia and other South Asian, Southeast Asian countries are not so obvious.