{"id":235,"date":"2009-04-13T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/13\/iphone-all-time-top-20-apps-countdown-to-1bn-downloads\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:48:00","slug":"iphone-all-time-top-20-apps-countdown-to-1bn-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/13\/iphone-all-time-top-20-apps-countdown-to-1bn-downloads\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone all-time top 20 apps, countdown to 1bn downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/SePHpzVVFiI\/AAAAAAAAD3M\/a74T_Gdswsc\/s1600-h\/iPhoneAppStore.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:hand;width:200px;height:77px;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/SePHpzVVFiI\/AAAAAAAAD3M\/a74T_Gdswsc\/s200\/iPhoneAppStore.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">I&#8217;ve been raving about it many a time and I still won&#8217;t stop but then: Apple does neither. When, waaaay back in January, I <a href=\"http:\/\/volkersthoughts.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/appstore-rises-and-rises-now-past-500.html\">looked last<\/a>, the App Store had raced through 500 million downloads and I calculated this to equate 4,000 per minute. Well, that&#8217;s history: We&#8217;re now through a 948 million total (count taken on 13 April, 11.23pm UK time from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/\">Apple&#8217;s site<\/a> [check the little clock]) and look at 6,000 downloads per minute (or 100 every second of every minute of every hour of every day!) or so some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moconews.net\/entry\/419-apple-starts-countdown-to-1-billion-apps-lists-top-20-apps-of-all-time\/\">learned friends<\/a> have summed it up to.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div>Apple also revealed a list of the top 20 all-time top downloads, both paid and free, which (courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moconews.net\/\">MoCoNews<\/a>) is this:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:hand;width:299px;height:320px;margin:0 auto 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/SeO6dZmfS5I\/AAAAAAAAD3E\/NtfKClTx4ro\/s320\/app+store+top20_2009_04.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>So here&#8217;s the good stuff for my gaming friends: 14 out of the top 20 paid apps are games! Yes, baby! 6 out of the top 20 free ones are, too. Way to go! I haven&#8217;t looked at the pricing for the above paid apps but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moconews.net\/entry\/419-apple-starts-countdown-to-1-billion-apps-lists-top-20-apps-of-all-time\/\">MoCoNews<\/a> did: \u00a299 is the prevailing price-point at the moment but $4.99 seems to be the price point of choice for &#8220;premium&#8221; games.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been raving about it many a time and I still won&#8217;t stop but then: Apple does neither. When, waaaay back in January, I looked last, the App Store had raced through 500 million downloads and I calculated this to equate 4,000 per minute. Well, that&#8217;s history: We&#8217;re now through a 948 million total (count [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,484],"tags":[52,1350,54,168,310,398,404],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-oem","tag-app-store","tag-apple","tag-apps","tag-downloads","tag-iphone","tag-mobile-content","tag-mobile-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-3N","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}