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Price and Popularity: The iPhone App Store’s Data Show Who’s Making The Most Money

13 points by sant0sk1 18y ago

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- tocomment 18y ago
  I don't see where it talks about guitar tuner
  - pxlpshr 18y ago
    hahaha, woops... I thought it was a link to this article which I had just read. http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/12/02/apple-announces-top-10-iphone-app-downloads-of-2008/ http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/12/02/apple-announces-top-1... :)
tocomment 18y ago
Where are they getting their data from?
henning 18y ago
The obsession over who's making the most money in the app store reminds me of Patrick Bateman's obsession with Tim Price's salary and the Fischer account in American Psycho.
pxlpshr 18y ago
So established players make the most money. Hardly a shock... Here's what bothers me now. During the Stevenote announcing the iPhone store, Steve specifically mentioned a portion of the 30% that Apple takes went to 'marketing'. Well, that's a strong statement given Apple hardly markets the app for you. Perhaps in the first month that was valid, but the gold rush has brought in waves upon waves of pollution. That said, I think it should be readjusted to 20%. We just signed with a PR firm because we know this is all coming back to a marketing game... and that's an additional expense cutting into our 70%. http://www.grabup.com/uploads/0f673dceb68ac4e5d8110d318370eac1.png http://www.grabup.com/uploads/0f673dceb68ac4e5d8110d318370ea... http://www.grabup.com/uploads/8831a14d263cb1fde1a50406d896f2d9.png http://www.grabup.com/uploads/8831a14d263cb1fde1a50406d896f2... For each feature or chapter, they make a different app. Are you kidding me?! Crap like this is why we've been in the "publishing process" for a full month, IMO. And this brings about additional phantom expenses when you're bootstrapping your company. :(
- mattmaroon 18y ago
  So basically your 30% goes to Loopt.
jgrahamc 18y ago
Is popularity a linear scale? If it isn't then it seems to me that simply multiplying the price by the popularity is bogus. e.g. in terms of units sold what's the difference between a popularity of 0.1 and 0.2? Double? Ten Times?

13 points by sant0sk1 18y ago

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tocomment 18y ago
I don't see where it talks about guitar tuner
- pxlpshr 18y ago
  hahaha, woops... I thought it was a link to this article which I had just read. http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/12/02/apple-announces-top-10-iphone-app-downloads-of-2008/ http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/12/02/apple-announces-top-1... :)

tocomment 18y ago

Where are they getting their data from?

henning 18y ago

The obsession over who's making the most money in the app store reminds me of Patrick Bateman's obsession with Tim Price's salary and the Fischer account in American Psycho.

pxlpshr 18y ago

So established players make the most money. Hardly a shock... Here's what bothers me now. During the Stevenote announcing the iPhone store, Steve specifically mentioned a portion of the 30% that Apple takes went to 'marketing'. Well, that's a strong statement given Apple hardly markets the app for you. Perhaps in the first month that was valid, but the gold rush has brought in waves upon waves of pollution. That said, I think it should be readjusted to 20%. We just signed with a PR firm because we know this is all coming back to a marketing game... and that's an additional expense cutting into our 70%. http://www.grabup.com/uploads/0f673dceb68ac4e5d8110d318370eac1.png http://www.grabup.com/uploads/0f673dceb68ac4e5d8110d318370ea... http://www.grabup.com/uploads/8831a14d263cb1fde1a50406d896f2d9.png http://www.grabup.com/uploads/8831a14d263cb1fde1a50406d896f2... For each feature or chapter, they make a different app. Are you kidding me?! Crap like this is why we've been in the "publishing process" for a full month, IMO. And this brings about additional phantom expenses when you're bootstrapping your company. :(

mattmaroon 18y ago
So basically your 30% goes to Loopt.

jgrahamc 18y ago

Is popularity a linear scale? If it isn't then it seems to me that simply multiplying the price by the popularity is bogus. e.g. in terms of units sold what's the difference between a popularity of 0.1 and 0.2? Double? Ten Times?