Ok, there are now more than 20,000 applications in the App Store. Amazing.
And to give you a bit of perspective, it took 155 days to get the first 5,000 application. Getting from 15,000 to 20,000 took just 23 days. Getting from 20,000 to 25,000 will now take less than 20. The continued growth, especially now that we’re past the holidays really is staggering.
And in case you’re wondering what the first application in the App Store was, here are the first 10 applications that were available in the App Store.
| Date | Name | Genre | Price |
| 5/28/2008 | AIM | Social Networking | $0.00 |
| 5/29/2008 | Evernote | Productivity | $0.00 |
| 5/29/2008 | nikoli SUDOKU Vol.01 | Games | $1.99 |
| 5/30/2008 | AOL Radio | Music | $0.00 |
| 5/30/2008 | Bloomberg | Finance | $0.00 |
| 5/30/2008 | TypePad | Social Networking | $0.00 |
| 5/30/2008 | Aqua Forest - Powered By Octaveengine Casual | Games | $7.99 |
| 5/30/2008 | Bomberman Touch - The Legend of Mystic Bomb | Games | $7.99 |
| 5/30/2008 | Frommers San Francisco | Travel | $9.99 |
| 6/2/2008 | Photobucket for iPhone | Photography | $0.00 |
AIM was the first application for the iPhone- amazing.
If you’re curious, take a look for yourself- here is the latest data [.xls file] from this morning. Feel free to use it to do your own analysis, just drop me a line with your results!
Hi,
I'm a student in an enginneering school, and as part of an assignment on new technologies, I'm doing a research on iPhone applications. I was wondering if you could specify the sources of your xls file data. Is it published by Apple ? besides, what does the column "Popularity" stand for ? is it related to the number of downloads for each application ?
It would help me a lot if you could answer my questions !
thanks !
Heger
Posted by: Heger | March 11, 2009 at 01:06 PM
Hi Heger,
The source is raw data from the App Store itself- I have written a small application that scrapes the data using HTTP and puts it into a CSV file.
The popularity data is provided by Apple, but they don't disclose specifically how the value is generated. It does appear to be related to downloads, but I'm not sure specifically how.
HTH!
Best,
Charles
Posted by: Charles Teague | March 12, 2009 at 10:56 AM