AppStore analysis articles

Pinch Media

Pinch Media is a company producing tools for iPhone developers. Among other they have Pinch Analytics—a great tool that allows a developer to see live stats on the usage of their app, not just downloads. Pinch Media has general data and can analyze general usage patterns, as well as dependencies between AppStore rating and the number of users. They have a blog where they publish interesting articles. We collected links to some of them.

AppStore Secrets (a slideshow, Feb 2009)
Three-quarters of iPhone / iPod Touch owners use apps

Other sources

App Store Rank-to-Sales Revealed (December 2008)
How to prevent the App Store from becoming the Crap Store (tap tap tap, November 2008)
US AppStore sales and rank data for WiFinder (September 2008)
More App Store sales figures (TUAW, August 2008)

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