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blog.appsfire.com - 21 days ago

Good news: the App store grows to 100k apps/ Bad news: The long tail is VERY long [exclusive appsfire data]

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But there is a bad news. Very few apps are enjoying the ride.

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readwriteweb.com - 21 days ago

iTunes App Store: 100k Apps, But Only 20% Are Being Used

— readwriteweb.com — Apple today announced that the iTunes App Store now features over 100,000 applications for the iPhone and... iPod touch. App Store users have downloaded over 2 billion applications. While Apple is obviously celebrating this as a success of its developer ... (more) iTunes App Store: 100k Apps, But Only 20% Are Being Used

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ReadWriteWeb:  iTunes App Store: 100k Apps, But Only 20% Are Being Used

9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence:  Appsfire figures that most Apps aren't very successful

The latest news from the mobile content industry:  The long, sad, lonely tail of iPhone applications

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RT @charityfocus: The very very long tail of iPhone apps: http://ow.ly/zGH0 19 days ago

Good News, the App Store grows to 100k apps. Bad news, the long tail is VERY long. http://bit.ly/m5bhT #iphone #apple #mobile 19 days ago

RT @norcalbarney: 100k apps for iPhone, 80% are failures. http://bit.ly/1ppcTc 20 days ago

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iTunes App Store: 100k Apps, But Only 20% Are Being Used
ReadWriteWeb — ... According to AppsFire's data, only a small number of apps are installed on over 50% of iPhones and iPod touch's. These are the usual suspects like the Facebook app or Shazam. The long tail, however, is very long and not especially lucrative. AppsFire's data shows that only 20,000 of the apps in the store are actually being used. The #1000 app was installed on less than 2% of all phones and there are still 99,000 apps with fewer installs in the store. ...

Appsfire figures that most Apps aren't very successful
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — ... With the App Store now holding over 100,000 apps, one would figure that only a few would enjoy the type of success that the big guys get.  Appsfire's analysis yielded the following results: ...

The long, sad, lonely tail of iPhone applications
The latest news from the mobile content industry — Apple announced yesterday that there are now more than 100,000 applications available for iPhone and iPod touch - but how many of them are actually being downloaded? Only about 20,000, according to analytics firm AppsFire. "We have found out that actually 20k apps are actually used (meaning installed and kept on people's iPhone)," says the company . That means a long and lonely tail of more than 80,000 applications that aren't being downloaded. A cautionary tale for any developer who thinks releasing an iPhone app is a licence to print money. In fact, even the thousandth most ...

100,000 Apps on iTunes. So?
Apple Forums & iPhone Forums, Mods, Hacks, News, Themes, Downloads, and more! | ModMyi.com - 4,711,751,911 — ... in the 481 days since it went online with just 500 applications on July 11, 2008. At the same time, a new study revealed that few of these apps are ever installed. ...