I just saw a chart from Martin Nerurkar about the sales of his game Nowhere Prophet by platform. He followed up with this tweet: And if you’re wondering why the Microsoft Store isn’t on this graph, that’s...

Apple has just started an experiment that should be fascinating  for behavioural psychologist Dan Ariely. Ariely is the man behind the popular psychology title, Predictably Irrational. In Chapter 3, he explains at length the powerful drive that...

Apple was recently sued in a class action suit over minors who were able to download in app purchases for their games without the permission of the account holder. Apple defended the suit at first but recently...

$7 billion sounds like a lot of money. That’s how much Apple has paid out to developers making apps for the Apple Appstore since the Appstore was launched in 2008. Given that 30/70 split in the favour...

In June 2010, 71% of the worldwide 100 top grossing apps on the App Store were paid only. Just two years later, that figure is 16%. If we include apps that are paid but also enable in-app purchases...

How much money can you make on iOS? That’s a pretty key question if you are trying to work out if it is worth your effort to develop for the platform. At least 9 games made $20 million...

My analysis of the top grossing apps of 2011 yesterday covered the UK market. Today, I’ll look at the US App Store Top Grossing apps, based on the 2011 Rewind feature. Games dominate the appstore in the US,...