An interesting dynamic in the AppStore - for the first time since launch, ‘free’ is not the most popular application price. In addition, the percentage of applications that are free is falling. At launch, almost a quarter of applications were free. As of this morning, Pinch Media tracked 798 applications in the [...]
Pinch Media records a lot of data as part of our reporting on the AppStore, but there’s a lot we deliberately don’t publish. For instance, we don’t report on reviews. Reviews are currently the easiest-to-manipulate aspect of the AppStore. A person doesn’t have to use the application to review it, and the [...]
Responding to developer complaints, Apple has fixed the immediate alphabetization problem with its AppStore. For the most part, numbers, spaces, and punctuation at the start of names are simply ignored - the application name ‘2 Across’, for instance, appears in the alphabetical order list as if it were simply ‘Across’. There appears to [...]
Right now the AppStore is brand new, and everyone’s trying to figure out how to use it correctly. We’re all experimenting, and I’m sure Apple is too - trying to figure out the policies that’ll result in maximum growth of the AppStore, maximum growth of the developer community, and maximum respect for the user [...]
Since I was asked a couple of times today what types of applications are generally free and what types of applications are generally charged for, I decided to put together some quick stats, based on data collected from the AppStore this morning:
The results are somewhat obvious - news and social networking are disproportionately free, since [...]