Archive for August 15th, 2008

15
Aug

App Store report

The good folks over at O’Reilly Radar have done some crunching through publicly available info on the App Store and have a report with all kinds of interesting metrics for anyone interested in how the marketplace for iPhone apps is developing to take a gander at. We thoroughly recommend reading the whole thing, but here’s one particularly interesting graph — although by absolute numbers games blow out all other categories, as could be confidently foreseen, this graph shows you what percentage of available apps in a category make the top 100:

So if you’re looking to get rich quick … apparently “Music” is your best bet! On an iPod smooshed into a cellphone? Gee, who saw that one coming?

h/t: MacSurfer!