Thanks to a report made public by Distimo, company that describes itself as “an innovative app store analytics company built to solve the challenges created by a widely fragmented app store marketplace filled with equally fragmented information and statistics,” we now know the answer to the following two questions:
1. How much do Windows Phone 7 Marketplace apps cost on average? The answer is $1.95; the about 3.000 apps hosted by Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, on average, cost $1.94. 2. How much do apps hosted by Apple’s App Store cost on average? The answer is $4; the 300.000+ apps hosted by Apple’s App Store, on average, cost $4.
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The report allows us to provide an answer to another question – which are the most popular paid apps in Apple’s App store, Google’s Android Market, BlackBerry’s App World, Nokia’s Ovi Store, Palm’s App Catalog, and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. Or at least which apps were the most popular during the month of October, 2010.
Here are the most popular paid apps hosted by the biggest app stores out there.
Top 10 Most Popular Paid App Store Apps (for iPad)
Cut the Rope HD
Pages
Angry Birds HD
Friendly for Facebook
Angry Birds Halloween HD
Skee-Ball HD
Numbers
GoodReader for iPad
Keynote
StarWalk for iPad – interactive astronomy guide
Top 10 Most Popular Paid App Store Apps (for iPhone)
Angry Birds
Cut the Rope
Angry Birds Halloween
Fruit Nina
Trainyard
Doodle Jump - BE WARNED: Insanely Addictive!
Ringtone Maker Pro - Create free ringtones with your music!
Family Feud
Bejeweled 2 + blits
Cartoon Wars 2: Heroes
Top 10 Most Popular Paid Android Market Apps
Beautiful Widgets
SwiftKey Keyboard
WeatherBug Elite
Weather & Toggle Widget
DocumentsToGo Full Version Key
MyBackup Pro
SetCPU for Root Users
PicSay Pro – Photo Editor
Talking Tom Cat
ROM Manager (Premium)
Top 10 Most Popular Paid BlackBerry App World Apps
PhotoClub - Funny Make Machine With Photos
One Touch Flashlight (Uses Camera Light)
MemoryBooster - RAM Optimizer
Azure - MMMOOO Masterpiece
Color Woody V2
Juicy Girl Theme - On Sale!
Ultra Today Plus - Display all today plus without hovering on
BeBuzz - LED Colors and Audible Reminders
Upgrade your homescreen to Sky2 LiveScreen
Scanner Radio
Top 10 Most Popular Paid Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Apps
Bejeweled LIVE
Need for Speed Undercover
Flight Control
The Harvest
Earthworm Jim HD
De Blob
Star Wars: Battle for Hoth
Frogger
Tetris
Max & the Magic Marker
Please note that the top 10s presented above apply to the month of October, 2010. The App Store and Android Market top 10s were based on US app popularity; the other tops were based on international app popularity.
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