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Top iPhone Paid and Free Apps for 2008
iPhone Atlas —
... and Top Social Networking. The categories are listed for both paid and free applications.
As pointed out by our colleague Tom Krazit at News.com, six of the top 10 paid apps were games, including Apple’s Texas Hold-Em and the heavily promoted Super Monkey Ball from Sega, but Koi Pond’s “mesmerizing virtual aquarium” led the way as the top-selling paid application for the iPhone and the iPod Touch
You can access the list via this iTunes link
Top of the Apps
Digital Daily —
... . An impressively broad ecosystem for just under five months of development. Apple’s (AAPL) year-end list of Top App Store Downloads for 2008, then, is both handy and timely (Click on the image below to see the top 10 paid and free apps). It’s largely what you’d expect, with the Games and Entertainment categories proving most popular, Facebook and Pandora dominating the Paid App category, and Texas Hold ‘Em and Moto Chaser topping the Free App category. Fascinating to see the breadth on display here. Were you to purchase every app currently for ...
Apple's Top iPhone Game Seller: Apple (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider —
Leading Apple's (AAPL) best-selling iPhone games list: Apple.
Apple said today that its Texas Hold'em poker game is the most-purchased iPhone/iPod touch game so far, beating games from the likes of Vivendi, Sega, Freeverse, and Pangea Software.
What does this mean? Apple isn't disclosing how many copies of its game it sold for $5. (We know it's more than 500,000, but that's it.) So we don't know how much revenue or profit Apple got from its game -- not enough to matter, anyway. We also don't know if Apple actually built the app or if it ...
Top App Store Downloads for 2008 Paint a Picture of Buying Habits
TheAppleBlog —
... It may not be a list with many surprises, but the official top App Store downloads of 2008 still makes for interesting reading. Posted by Apple early this morning and available to view in iTunes, the list of chart-toppers is divided into most downloaded overall, and features top ten lists for five of the App Store’s categories: Games, Entertainment, Utilities, Social Networking and Music. ...
Year-End Lists: Top AppStore Downloads
Cult of Mac —
... Apple released its lists of the Top 10 Paid and Top 10 Free Apps on the iTunes AppStore Tuesday, and also broke down the top apps by category. If you visited the iTunes store since the AppStore launched in July, you’ve been able to get a running snapshot of the Top 10 overall lists, as they have been published on the AppStore’s front page since the launch. ...
iTunes shows off the best of 2008
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... Apple has created a "Best of 2008" [iTunes link] section in the iTunes Store. On this page, Apple lets everyone know what the top-downloaded TV Shows, Music, Movies, Apps, Podcasts, and Audiobooks are. Among the top paid iPhone applications are Koi Pond, Texas Hold'em, and Moto Chaser. Among the top free iPhone applications are Pandora, Facebook, and Tap Tap Revenge. There's also a top downloaded podcast list. We didn't quite make the top downloaded podcasts list, but hey, there's ...
iTunes Store The Best of 2008
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
... and Ask a Ninja were happy to see themselves on the list. Plus, upcoming artist are also being noticed. For example, Dancing with the Stars contestant turned singer, Julianna Hough secured a spot in the Best New Artists of 2008. The Dark Knight is the top movie download of 2008 even though it hasn't been released yet. Below is a list of Top 2008 catagories. Top Music Videos Top Movies Top TV Shows Top Audio Podcasts Top Songs Top Albums Top Apps Top Audiobooks ...
What's On asks 'WTF?'
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... Last week, Apple launched a special page [iTunes link] within iTunes celebrating the best of 2008 in all the various content categories. The Apps page [iTunes link] shows off the best selling (and presumably editor's picks) for paid and free apps in ...
Most-Downloaded List Shows Why "App" Rhymes With "Crap"
iSmashPhone —
... May be this guy has a point, but still it is impressive what developers came up with in the past 6 months. [See the full list at iTunes] ...
Apple's Holiday Pitch For The iPhone: We Have Great Games (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... Makes sense to us -- people are already playing a lot of games on their iPhones. Of the top ten paid applications in Apple's App Store in 2008, six are games. And two of the top five free apps are games too. ...
More Games To iPhone: Metal Gear Solid, Dance Dance Revolution, Frogger
Silicon Alley Insider —
... There's a real market there -- of the top ten paid applications in Apple's App Store in 2008, six are games. And we assume that Konami will get plenty of marketing help from Apple, which has pushed games from other big studios, like Sega's "Super Monkey Ball." ...
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