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Apple Adds Top 100 App Listings Per Category

Thursday December 11, 2008 1:50 pm PST by Arnold Kim

Solrobots.com, developer of SaveBenjis [App Store] let us know that he had found new Top 100 listings per category in the iTunes Store.

The changes have not yet propagated out to all iTunes clients, but here is a list of what we've found so far.

Books: Paid / Free
Business: Paid / Free
Education: Paid / Free
Entertainment: Paid / Free
Finance: Paid / Free
Games: Paid / Free
Healthcare & Fitness: Paid / Free
News: Paid / Free
Photography: Paid / Free
Reference: Paid / Free
Sports: Paid / Free
Utilities: Paid / Free

Apple had previously only had Top 100 overall and Top 100 game listings.
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Hawkeye411
Posted: 45 months ago
That will be extremely useful!!
:D:apple:
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Sparky9292
Posted: 45 months ago
Finally! I'd wish they deal with all of the "gaming" that goes on with the top 100, a company lists their version for free for a few hours, then suddenly changes the price.
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eljuan
Posted: 45 months ago
There's a great article on digg this morning http://digg.com/apple/Android_Getting_Slaughtered_by_iPhone that shows that iPhone SDK developer jobs on the open market far exceed that of the SDK for Android.

Round one goes to Apple!!
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Hooka
Posted: 45 months ago
nice touch, this will increase the price of apps.
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kfordham281
Posted: 45 months ago
Great improvement for sure. But where are application demos?
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DipDog3
Posted: 45 months ago
I would guess they would have to since there are so many apps out there. The Top 100 isn't enough anymore.
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mikeinternet
Posted: 45 months ago
Are all these "top" lists based on number of downloads or ratings?
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mikeinternet
Posted: 45 months ago

Great improvement for sure. But where are application demos?


Exactly. this needs to happen. It would encourage people to by more expensive apps since they wouldn't risk getting a piece of junk. also it would clean up the annoying multiple versions of apps.
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kdarling
Posted: 45 months ago

There's a great article on digg this morning http://digg.com/apple/Android_Getting_Slaughtered_by_iPhone that shows that iPhone SDK developer jobs on the open market far exceed that of the SDK for Android.


They're talking about job offers on oDesk.

ODesk is a place where (mostly) people with an idea go to ask for someone to program an app for them. So there's a lot of iPhone "99 cent millionaire" wannabes posting requests for people to program an app they thought up. And they're offering peanuts in pay.

I see the same thing on Craigslist. They offer $10 an hour for programming, and a percentage of the take.
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Kwill
Posted: 45 months ago
Cool. Top Paid/Free even shows on iPhone app store.
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