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Do In-App Purchases Count Towards “Top Grossing” App Store Rankings?
Do In-App Purchases Count Towards “Top Grossing” App Store Rankings?
One of the many, many “great unknowns” of Apple’s iPhone App Store is how the top-grossing list is calculated, specifically whether or not it factors in revenue from in-app purchases. While we could theoretically wait and see if, now that they too can use in-app purchase, ...
Freeverse Concludes That App Store ‘Top Grossing’ List Includes In-App Purchasing Sales
blog.freeverse.com — Their Flick Fishing app is behind their Top Gun app in the regular sales list, but their... relative positions are flipped in the top-grossing list, which indicates that the top-grossing list takes in-app purchasing sales into account. This, in turn, ... (more) Freeverse Concludes That App Store ‘Top Grossing’ List ...
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Do In-App Purchases Count Towards “Top Grossing” App Store Rankings?
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