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A new report from ComScore that confirms what many mobile developers already knew. The users of iPhone and iPod Touch are much more likely to download games that users of other smartphones. ComScore said that the mobile games industry has grown 17% this year thanks to phones like the iPhone. 32.4% of iPhone users have downloaded a game, compared to 3.8% from other manufacturers. In all, iPhone users downloaded 14% of all mobile games last year. Although the article does not mention, it is important to remember that the App Store started the second half of 2008.

This discovery, however, is not limited to games on the iPhone. It is found that 13 million iPhone users have downloaded the equivalent of what they had downloaded 1,100 million users of other mobile devices.

For a developer, what this means is that if an application launches for other smart phones (not the iPhone) you need to get 94 times more users to get the sales that would have developed for the iPhone

This, of course, is what drives the development of applications for the iPhone platform. The total number of applications sore over 17,000 according to AppShopper.com.