The iPhone App

Apple is about to pass an important mark of having over 1 billion downloads for the iPhone. Apple opened up its Application store last year for developers to write programs that could work on the iPhone. Since that time, Apple has had over 950 million of these applications downloaded. Many of the applications are free, but for the paid ones, Apple takes 30% of all sales.

Here are some interesting points related to iPhone applications:

• Pandora is the 3rd-most downloaded free application (streaming radio based upon musical tastes)
• Shazam is the fifth (allows you to identify a song by holding the phone near a speaker playing the song)
• Overall, weather-related apps are the most popular (39% of users say they access weather-related apps the most)
• Facebook said to have been accessed by 25% of users
• Only 20% of iPhone users actually use the application regularly after downloading it
• 93% of iPhone users have downloaded at least one application. the other 7% should not own an iPhone. just kidding.

Stay tuned,
Erik
erikrostad.com