Posts tagged App Store

How Many Downloads Does an App Need to Reach The Top of The Free Charts on iOS?

  • United States – Top 10: 80,000; Top 25: 45,000; Top 50: 25,000
  • China — Top 10: 30,000; Top 25: 15,000; Top 50: 10,000
  • Canada – Top 10: 9,000; Top 25: 4,000; Top 50: 2,000
  • Japan – Top 10: 20,000; Top 25: 9,000; Top 50: 6,000
  • South Korea – Top 10: 20,000; Top 25: 9,000; Top 50: 5,000
  • United Kingdom – Top 10: 18,000; Top 25: 8,000; Top 50: 5,000
  • Germany – Top 10: 12,000; Top 25: 5,000; Top 50: 3,000
  • France – Top 10: 10,000; Top 25: 5,000; Top 50: 3,000
  • Italy – Top 10: 8,000; Top 25: 4,000; Top 50: 2,000
  • Australia – Top 10: 8,000; Top 25: 4,000; Top 50: 2,000

App Store Rentals?

Interesting.

Discovery is no problem at all.
FT.com Managing Director Rob Grimshaw on the success of the FT iPad-optimised web app outside of Apple’s App Store eco-system.

I’m sure that Playboy are finding the same thing.


The Towson Hack: The mystery of vanishing iTunes credit - Macworld

Use iTunes. Watch your statements carefully.

There is a strange and as-yet unresolved problem with some customers’ iTunes Store credit disappearing in a variety of ways. It’s been going on for ten months now. Great reporting by Lex Friedman.

Via Chartier, Instapaper

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F.U., F.T.

Apple reaches 15 Billion App downloads; 1 Billion of those downloaded within the last month*. As a reminder, it’s taken almost ten years for Apple to shift 15 Billion songs, but less than three to hit the same number of apps.  Hey, HTML5, how are you doing? *It was 14 Billion at WWDC. 

Apple reaches 15 Billion App downloads; 1 Billion of those downloaded within the last month*. As a reminder, it’s taken almost ten years for Apple to shift 15 Billion songs, but less than three to hit the same number of apps. 

Hey, HTML5, how are you doing?



*It was 14 Billion at WWDC. 

Amazon App Store Not So Great?

Apple and Amazon are in court about whether Apple should have exclusive rights to the phrase ‘App Store’. From the Bloomberg article:

Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet told Bloomberg that Apple’s fear is that by using the “App Store” name, Amazon’s offering will “confuse and mislead customers.”


This new Gigaom article suggests that Amazon’s App Store is not a good user experience. Perhaps Apple have ground to stand on.

Compressor, Apple’s advanced transcode/encoding tool, is available now at the App Store for a mind-bogglingly low price of $49.99

Compressor, Apple’s advanced transcode/encoding tool, is available now at the App Store for a mind-bogglingly low price of $49.99

Motion 5, Apple’s motion graphics design tool, is available now in the App Store for an almost impossible to believe $49.99**Adobe are going to be unhappy (After Effects goes for $999). Note: As a long time AE user (Version 1) I’ll be interested to see how the feature set compares for the price gap. 

Motion 5, Apple’s motion graphics design tool, is available now in the App Store for an almost impossible to believe $49.99*



*Adobe are going to be unhappy (After Effects goes for $999).

Note: As a long time AE user (Version 1) I’ll be interested to see how the feature set compares for the price gap. 

Final Cut Pro X is available now in the App Store for $299

Final Cut Pro X is available now in the App Store for $299