Google Inc. (GOOG) App Revenue Gains on Apple Inc. (AAPL)

Meanwhile, Apple’s app revenue in December was 75 percent higher than in December 2011 and about 350 percent higher than the Google Play revenue – though that is down from January 2012, when Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) had a 1,000-percent advantage. In the good news category, Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has had games be the largest downloads, with South Korea posting about 95 percent of its total Google Play downloads were gaming apps, while Japan had about 90 percent game downloads and the U.S. about 75 percent. Overall, the Apple App Store has about 800,00 apps, and the Google Play store has about 700,000.

What do you think about this report? Can Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) truly make up ground on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), or is the revenue gap too large? With an app store that is nearly as stocked as Apple’s and a much larger share of the market, why do you think Google is so far behind? What would it take for Google to catch up? We’d like your thoughts in the comments section below.

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