Apple’s 2008 Top iPhone Apps section of iTunes
VentureBeat — ... So maybe you just got an iPhone or iPod touch, or maybe you’re going to get one very soon for the holidays. With something like 10,000 applications out there in Apple’s App Store, it’s basically impossible to know which ones to get. Sure, there are the most popular ones right now which are clearly seen in the store, but those leave out a lot of great ones that have been popular in the past. Luckily, Apple has just rolled out a Top Apps section in iTunes as part of its iTunes 2008 year-end section. ...

Apple top App Store downloads for 2008 revealed
SlashGear — ... In paid apps, gaming occupies most of the top ten spots.  Crash Bandicoot, Super Monkey Ball, Texas Hold’em and Moto Chaser are all among the most paid-for software.  Full details here [link opens iTunes]. ...

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 ...

Never Heard Of Koi Pond Or iBeer? Well, They Top The List Of Most-Downloaded iPhone Apps
mocoNews — ... ) Wireless with the permission of Lucas Films. No word on how the first very popular Lightsaber app, which didn't have permission, placed in the rankings before it was yanked. More results can be found here. ...

Apple's 2008 Most Downloaded iPhone Apps Might Just Surprise You
mocoNews — ... ) Wireless with the permission of Lucas Films. No word on how the first very popular Lightsaber app, which didn't have permission, placed in the rankings before it was yanked. More results can be found here. ...

Apple Lists Top Free (and Paid) iPhone Apps [Iphone 2.0]
Lifehacker — [image] Apple releases a list of the most popular free and paid iPhone and iPod touch apps in the iTunes Store with Pandora, Shazam, and Remote leading the charge in the free section. Compare to our list of ...

Apple lists top iPhone and iPod apps of 2008
Obsessable News Feed — ... Proud of the huge success the App Store for iPhones and iPods has had since it launched in July, Apple updated the iTunes Store today with a list of the top app downloads of 2008. Free and paid apps are listed separately, but within those categories there are the top 10 apps in each category, and the top 10 overall, providing a detailed look at what folks want on their mobile devices. For example, and Facebook beat MySpace by more than one spot, and games dominated the top ten paid apps list, ...

Definitivamente: iPhone es para jugar
Gizmología — ... ha lanzado el top 10 de aplicaciones de pago y gratuitas, las 10 más descargadas de cada categoría. La gran curiosidad no es saber que Crash Bandicoot sea la aplicación número uno o que la estúpida iPint sea la más descargada gratuitamente, si no que la mitad de las aplicaciones son juegos. Esto podría contestar a la pregunta que muchos se hicieron, ¿será iPhone una especie de nueva videoconsola portátil? Enlace: iTunes 2008 Apps (requiere iTunes instalado) Comparte esta anotación ...

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 ...

Apple Announces Top iTunes Downloads, 2008
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech — ... . For me, far more interesting was the list of App Store downloads . Apple split them into two major categories (paid and free, natch), and then into subcategories. You can see a table with the top downloads below: It’s quite a large list, given all the categories. Now here’s where it would be great if we could see download figures. It would be great to know just how well Koi Pond did vs. Pandora Radio, or just how well a paid game did against a free game. I would also expect the top apps / music / whatever on Apple’s list to see a spike after this listing. Check out the ...

Top App Store Downloads for 2008 Paint a Picture of Buying Habits [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — ... 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. ...

The Top 20 iPhone Social Networking Apps
Podcasting News — Apple has announced the top iPhone apps of 2008 (App Store link).  Here are the top iPhone apps for social networking: Top Paid Social Networking: MobileChat BeejiveIM Quip Rooms - Your Mobile Chat Client Twitterrific Premium Flutter Twittelator Pro mBoxMail Secrets hiCard - Suite Top Free Social Networking: Facebook AIM Myspace Mobile IM+ ...

Facebook is the 2nd Most Downloaded Free App on the iPhone
Inside Facebook — ... Today, Apple released the top 10 most downloaded applications (free, paid, and by category) in 2008. Facebook ranked #2 amongst all free apps behind Pandora and just ahead of Tap Tap Revenge, and #1 amongst social networking applications ahead of AIM and MySpace. ...

Top iPhone Applications: Will Any Productivity Tools Be Launched at All in the Future?
Profy — ... first year when iTunes acted like a distribution channel for downloadable applications that users can install on an iPhone or an iPod Touch which makes the announcement more interesting as until now we could only see the most popular downloadable music and videos from Apple downloads stats. Since iTunes App Store launched back in July Apple has been tracking statistics for downloads of both free and paid-for applications and the results are definitely worth taking a look at. Clicking this iTunes link will open the lists of the most popular paid and free applications in various ...

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 ...

Facebook Nears 2 Million iPhone Downloads
All Facebook — ... This morning iTunes published a list of the top applications for 2008 and coming in second place was Facebook. The first place winner was Pandora who ...

Fun And Games Dominate iPhone App Chart
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Apple's App Store has been a tremendous hit since it was launched about 5 months ago, and Apple's year-end charts ( iTunes link ) show that iPhone and ...

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 Paid Apps Top Free Apps Top Audiobooks ...

Appiphilia quick hits: Millions for music lovers, tops for teachers and finding free apps
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... -- Secret of success: Earlier this week, the iTunes store revealed its list of the top 120 apps of 2008. Josh Quittner deconstructs what helped the cream rise to the top. ...

10,000 iPhone Apps: Why We Care And You Should
Android Phone Fans — ... First of all, congrats to Apple and the iPhone. I hope Android Fans embrace the success of the iPhone because the successes and failures of that platform can be used to aid the success of Android. A few days ago, Apple announced the most downloaded iPhone Apps to date. If I was a developer I would be taking a CLOSE look at this list and seeing what type of applications have the most potential. This is market research at its best. ...

Crap apps are App Store shoppers' favorite
PalmAddicts — ... The phenomenal success of Apple's App Store is being broadcasted at full speed on the last weekend, started with Apple announcement of top iPhone apps list of 2008. ...

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 ...

Ring tone apps
furbo.org — ... of other developers, I’m not going to give you suggestions on what to do about this: you and your team are perfectly capable of dealing with it on your own terms. Rather, I’d like to give you some insight into how these “ring tone” apps are affecting my business. Both of our products, Frenzic and Twitterrific, have been quite successful in the App Store. Frenzic is currently in What’s Hot and Twitterrific appears in both the Top Free and Top Paid Apps for 2008. We also won an ADA at this year’s WWDC. It ...

IPhone developer laments glut of free and cheap apps
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... , has released three apps: Twitterific, which is free; Frenzic, which costs $5; and Twitterific Premium, which costs $10. Twitterific, which helps iPhone users Twitter better, is listed in Apple's Best of 2008. ...

Most-Downloaded List Shows Why "App" Rhymes With "Crap"
iSmashPhone - Turn your Phone into your MyPhone — ... 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." ...