Distimo, a Netherlands based market research firm has released its latest report that looks into the prices of popular paid applications worldwide. One of the striking observations is that the most popular iPhone applications* are the most expensive in Europe whereas least expensive in North America and Asia. Here is the average price of popular apps in the various continents

Europe : $3.86
Africa : $3.43
South America : $3.10
Australia : $2.86
Asia : $2.69
North America : $2.43

*Distimo has not elaborated on the criterion for picking applications as popular (download numbers or revenues) and also the number of such applications used for the study

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