Still don't have an iPhone 3G? Oh, well, that's life - the supply problems are not over yet, but they'll be over and gone, sooner or later. The good part of this whole iPhone 3G thing is that Apple's App Store arrived almost at the same time with it, but you can also use it to get software for your old iPhone or iPod Touch, as long as they were updated to the version 2.0 of their underlying software component. These being said, let's see the App Store statistics for the last few days, because there are a few surprising things you must hear!
If you are looking for iPhone 3G accessories, then let me tell you a secret - for this phone, the best accessories you can get are the programs you'll be running on it! I know that "accessories" is not the same with "programs," but, as time passes by, I start considering the software for any device being much more important than a case or a power adapter. Anyway, let's move on to the App Store news now, shall we?
Last Friday, there were 505 applications available, and the average price was $6.03, but on Saturday, the average price already went down to $5.62, after about 50 more programs were added, just to fall down to $5.47 by the next days, when the App Store had no less than 585 applications that were not free.
Obviously, games are the most popular applications available, with 27 percent of the 802 programs counted in the store by Sunday, but only 21 of them are available for free. The funny part is that, if we consider all the applications in the App Store, and look at the top 10 downloads, only one of those is a paid software - Super Monkey Ball, while the remaining ones are freeware!
In the end, it seems Apple has nothing against free software, don't you agree? As long as there are enough freebies available on the App Store to draw attention, and paid applications are selling well, I see no reason to have anything against those programs coming for free. After all, nothing's free, and I am sure those software producers posting free applications for iPhone and iPod Touch on the App Store aren't starving because of this!