Let's take users with a single daily driver app as our monetisation base. From numbers shared by Primal cross referenced with Nostr.band stats I'd say about half of these users are Primal users.
Primal has a proper subscription offering, which is fair, they offer what no other client offers in terms of UX, wallet integration, spam mitigation, backups, etc. That cache relay of theirs opens up business opportunities, it just does. So their subscription offers value. And you can pay via Apple Pay, which always helps sales.
Of those users not using Primal as their daily driver, most use an app that doesn't have a subscription offering, or has one that's not as compelling as Primal's on aggregate, and that is framed more along lines of support, for the cause, help out the team and such (versus tangible UX things).
Let's say Primal converts its daily-driver users to income at a rate 3 to 4 times the other apps. (I'd not be surprised if it was even higher, but anyway). That's your 80%. (There are also the paid relays, but even if you put that revenue all to the non-primal side it's not really going to move the needle.)
Not saying Primal is in the black, far from it I'm sure. Just a comment on market share. It is what it is.
Joe
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