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- daGUY, on 07/15/2008, -1/+63The App Store's been open for a grand total of five days...isn't it a bit soon to already be proclaiming that "free apps no longer dominate"? What if in the next five days Apple approves more apps for the store and the majority of them happen to be free, shifting the balance back?
Personally, I'd be more interested in seeing stats like this after three or six months, not five days. - Avian00, on 07/16/2008, -0/+37I can accept that not all Apps will be free, but I can't believe there is no "trial" option. I'm not comfortable forking over $9.99 for software I've never tried before. Especially when I'm trying to evaluate between multiple options. Apple needs to do something about this.
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -1/+33Well, in five days Techcrunch can claim "Free apps retake app store" and make more advertising dollars.
- earnjam, on 07/16/2008, -0/+10Wow, problems everywhere in this article.
First their chart shows the Free bar going over 180, but they say there's only 161. Then they say, "The second most popular is $9.99 with 12 percent (96 apps)" That just isn't close to correct. The 2nd most popular is still Free. They should look at the chart they posted right above their text or maybe the sentence they wrote two seconds before. - Azohko, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8Mabye because people don't want to throw their money away on a new App Store. They want to get a couple of free ones to test it out. Now people have done that.
- ibeetle, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8I suspect over the weekend everybody ran home from the Apple Store with there new iPhone, and downloaded all the free apps first. Now they are trying out the pay for apps.
As far as price it does look like $9.99 seems to be a popular price point. Although, it would not surprise me if more apps go to the free column. When developers tried charging for podcast and dashboard widgets they found them selfs not selling many, if any at all.
The game Aurora Feint the Beginning is free and one of the best games in the app store. If a 23 year old Berkley grad can do a game like Aurora for free that will put pressure on the major game makers to keep their prices low. - bcos, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8I was worried about this.
If the price point is going to shift away from free, I would really like a requirement like on XBL for every app to have some sort of demo. - jpaolini, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8An algorithm decides what stories make it to the front page.
- Rahodeb, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8He's saying that there were a greater number of free apps then any other INDIVIDUAL price point. i.e. more free than 99cents, more free than $1.29, etc.
Basically, he was manipulating the statistics to manufacture a story. A story made all the more insignificant given that the app store is 5 days old. - StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -3/+10Is there a good site already that is reviewing every app? Preferably with an RSS feed.
- jktress, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7I want to try a 9.99 game first before I get stuck with a lemon.
- JuanBSU, on 07/16/2008, -2/+8...or if it has the word "iPhone" in the title
- ardnut, on 07/16/2008, -1/+7In other words 76% of the apps you have to pay for.
- mikephimikephi, on 07/16/2008, -1/+7no
- lou2005, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5Here is a list I made of what I think is some good apps
1. Where (Free) This is a location-based application that will recommend the best restaurants, the nearest Starbucks, the cheapest gas, and even the location of friends in your network. The cheapest gas makes this one tops. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ ...
2. Evernote (Free) This app lets you take notes, snap photos, record audio, make to do lists and it syncs on the web and works with your Mac and your windows machines. Probably won't be free for long. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ ...
3. Shazam (Free) Hear a song and hold your iphone up to the speaker and shazam finds the name of the song. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ ...
4. Movies.app (Free) There are a bunch of these. This one is free. Look up movie show times by zip code. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ ...
5. Yelp (Free) Search for near by businesses, restaurants. Get addresses and phone numbers. Read reviews. I've been seeing a lot of Yelp stickers in restaurants. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ ...
6. Mpg ($0.99) It’s nice to know the average MPG that your vehicle gets. Of course you can just use the calculator but this one remembers the ones you calculate, so you can compare. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ ...
7. Pandora Radio (Free) Personalized Radio Station. There are a bunch of Internet Radio apps out there. I think this is the best one. Although, I can't think of a faster way to drain your battery than to listen to Internet radio. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ ...
8. Light (Free) Turns your iPhone into a flashlight. I think it would work great to find things in the bottom of your purse. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ ...
9. eReader (Free) Everyone (at least I do) needs an eBook reader. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ ...
10. NetNewsWire (Free) This is a RSS reader. Readers are one of my favorite things. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ ... - inactive, on 07/16/2008, -2/+7Remote - Good
iPint - fun for 2 minutes
Facebook - Good
Phone Saber - Worthless
Tap Tap - Good
iMaze - Doesn't work properly
Shazam - Pointless, not going to be free for longer and you will never use after a week.
Break - Rubbish
Light - Its a white screen
Bubbles - 1 minute of fun - earnjam, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4"Totally agree especially at present when some well put together apps just crash out.. "
Or cause the phone to reboot randomly (Monkeyball, a few others). Or lock it up entirely causing you to do a hard reboot (facebook pictures when viewing all for a person...this happens every single time for me) - lcaller, on 07/16/2008, -1/+5Totally agree especially at present when some well put together apps just crash out..
I'm willing to pay for my apps i just want to see what i'm paying for.. The initial ad supported offerings from Twitterific and Exposure are the way forward. I've already upgrades to Twitterific Pro thanks to the ad supported version. - DanBoodro, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Seems as though 9.99 will be the standard price for the really good games on the iPhone; such as Monkey Ball, Crash Bandicoot, etc. The free games and cheaper ones are great too, but the 9.99 ones seem to be the ones that the big developers are pushing out, which really isn't that bad considering the quality of the game and the amount of play time.
- etruscan, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4I thought this as well... seems to me that if 24% of them were free, the actual most popular price point was NOT free.
Give it time, it will grow - and most of those developers who will show interest in giving away their app for free have yet to develop something. - ccheath, on 07/16/2008, -1/+5"Personally, I'd be more interested in seeing stats like this after three or six months, not five days."
Well you're just going to have to wait... sorry, the time machine app is not available yet. - fani, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4I bought Texas Hold 'Em ($4.99), Scrabble ( $9.99 ) and Carrom ($0.99). Carrom is worthless, but Scrabble and Texas Hold 'em are well worth it. I regularly am playing Scrabble and the poker game. Some apps deserve their money.
These 2 definitely qualify for that. However, these games chew up battery like anything. So beware.
I've got some free apps as well, but free is not always good. Some are decent, but many are not worth it. I'd rather pay upto $3-$4 for something worthwhile.
And one feature I would like is : Allow us to demo the app for a few hours or days and then using your excellent (sic!) DRM wipe it off the phone after the time is over.
At least then I can try before I buy and waste money on some. - purelithium, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4And thereby voiding my warranty.
- lazyrussian, on 07/16/2008, -1/+5Right - I still don't see how 24% = domination.
Last I checked, 24% is the minority. - purelithium, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4I just bought GuitarToolKit because of this article. I needed a new Tuner, and a new one would have easily cost me 10 bucks, but that's another thing to toss in my guitar case. Now I have a tuner wherever I go. Goddamn I love my iPhone and the AppStore.
I only wish I could use Itunes Gift Card money toward app store purchases... - n3tfury, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Bee-dee Bee-dee Bee-dee. OK, Buck.
- MacParrot, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3That's GREAT news...well except for the part where this is a discussion about free vs paid-for apps in the app store for the iPhone.
Methinks you are about to be dugg to oblivion and rightly so - escapeZmatrix, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Your reviews lost credibility when you said Shazam is pointless. Shazam is superb! It is also free.
- gropo, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Precisely. I'm on the fence about forking over $40 for the Netter's Anatomy app. I could have seriously used it 2 months back when I was studying for myology exams, but I'm just not convinced the viscera portion is in-depth enough for my current studies. I have no means of previewing it other than reviewing the app store presentation that Apple hosted. A couple screenshots aren't enough.
Being that the apps are FairPlayed there's no feasible reason they can't offer up 24 hour expirable demos. Perhaps this is in the works. - o0Synn0o, on 07/16/2008, -3/+6most of iphone apps = garbage
Jailbreakin iphone 3g = priceless - h00ligan, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Tuaw is review quite a few of them, but is not a site dedicated to those reviews. If you want that, use the itunes store and read the user reviews?
- fribhey, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4i agree that there will be better stats in a few months BUT there have already been over 10 million apps downloaded and this is a good sign to developers that people aren't just looking for a free lunch.... stats like this will help push current developers to continue writing more useful apps and will help encourage new developers to start writing iphone apps, which in turn will help grow the platform even more.
- lordtyros, on 07/16/2008, -1/+3Newsflash: No one gives a ***** about Android. It's a case of too little, too late.
- gropo, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Yeah wow, I just had the facebook app sitting there with a friend's 'view all photos' page pulled up... Hard crashed the iPod after a minute. Easily the buggiest app I have installed.
- cello, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Reviews of iPhone apps will clearly be quite popular.
- lsumed, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2As long as the free stuff stays free, I'm fine for now.
- spudmanster, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2I have bought about 10 so far. It seems like 95 percent of the software is cack/hokey slapped together in a few mins and in need of refinement. Hopefully some of the more mature development companies will start throwing some decent stuff in there.
- Avian00, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2I've considered both ways, and frankly I believe the responsibility lies with Apple. Mostly because it is Apple who conducts the official transaction and control the terms of sales ( http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/sales.html ). Their own policy states that all sales are final.
Also, if you consider this from a technical perspective, since Apple controls the DRM used to distribute the Apps, they the ones best suited to create an option for what I would call a "Trial flag." Developers could simply enable this flag and specify the number of days they're comfortable with. But only Apple is in a position to make this kind of feature a reality. - lordtyros, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2***** you, phone saber is awesome
- earnjam, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2The ToDo apps do a LOT more than notes. Some sync with online versions, have multiple lists, priorities, due dates, additional notes, direct links to phone, email, web, etc.
Notes doesn't even sync up with my desktop or laptop...worthless for much other than jotting down a thought or two (which I can really use email for and then have it anywhere...not just on my phone) - anarchyx34, on 07/16/2008, -1/+3"I can just picture these bozos thinking to themselves "At 99 cents, if we even sell to *just* a million people ... that's a million dollars!! We're geniuses! Everyone will pay 99 cents!"
Yeah that's basically how it works. Even if an app is downloaded only 4,000 times, that's ~$4k. Wouldn't you like an extra $4k? - DesdinovaEL, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Wow thankyou for that explanation. Thats pretty much what i wanted to know
-abc - somberlaine, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2check out http://toucharcade.com/
It was just set up by some Macrumors.com guy. it has extensive reviews with videos - capycapy, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Desdinova - an application can't track your physical location without you explicitly opting-in - not in the terms of service, but by prominently clicking a button that says 'share my location'. Applications are sandboxed, so they don't have access to what you've done on other applications. And no application has access to your call record - Apple simply hasn't exposed that part of the OS - unless you're making calls from that application itself (VOIP over wifi) or go to the phone from a 'phone number' link exposed in that application. Even then the application doesn't share this automatically - the developer would have to build in specific code to do so.
Applications do theoretically have access to, and could be storing and potentially sharing, what you do within that particular application - when you open it, what you do within it, etc. Of course if your application contacts a server it's going to send and retrieve information about what you're doing to complete its request - just like any website. The only way to prevent this would be to never use an application when you're connected to a cellular network or wifi. - earnjam, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2That's the only problem I've had with it. Crashes on "view all photos" every time.
- DesdinovaEL, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1i wouldnt say no one gives a ***** but because its open source doesnt mean its apps will be free. If major developers are forced to develop apps that are distributed for free know what that means? Ads in the apps and personal information farming. Nothing is free.
- DesdinovaEL, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Heres what I want to know. What kind of personal information can these things farm? I already get texts everytime someone i know adds the loopt application. Can these apps track where I go and who i call and where i go online? Who gets that information?
-abc - Taiyoryu, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Chart is lame. It just shows price distribution. It doesn't in anyway correlate price point with actual downloads.
- yabos, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Yeah. I don't even have an iPhone @ 2.0 yet and I still downloaded some apps with iTunes.
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