Most notable is the strength of free apps on both Nokia's Ovi Store and Palm's App Catalog when compared to other app stores.
While the majority of marketplaces are weighted towards games of the paid variety, free games take a larger share of the top 100 apps on both platforms than paid titles do.
For example, 33 percent of the top 100 free apps on Palm are games, compared to 16 percent paid.
The ratio is slightly closer on the Ovi Store 25 percent free to 23 percent paid while the App Store for iPhone is something of a dead heat on 55 percent each.
That, however, represents the largest proportion of games in the top 100 apps on any of the marketplaces, with Angry Birds, Doodle Jump and Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja topping a top 10 countdown that contains nine games in all.
Android's price is right
Distimo was unable to compare the App Store to Android Market due to Google's decision to separate games from standard apps in two distinct categories.
However, the firm's stats do - surprisingly - suggest higher priced games do flourish on the Android Market.
While the top three games on the App Store are all priced at 99c, the cheapest game in the corresponding countdown on Android Market is Smartpix's Jewellust at $2.95. Indeed, all of the games in the top 10 are priced somewhere between $2.09 and $5.99.
Distimo also notes that, over the course of the quarter, Lupis Labs Software has been one of the most successful publishers on the platform, with the free and paid versions of chart head Robo Defense having accumulated downloads of more then 250,000 each.
You can get Distimo's complete Q3 2010 report here.
