App Store stats suggest humans have attention span of gnats
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Feb 24th 2009 3:08AM
posted Feb 24th 2009 3:08AM
Did you put down Rolando after a mere 10 minutes of play time, never to touch it again? You're a cold, soulless person with nary a fun bone in your body, but you may not be alone. Pinch Media, whose analytics engine can be used to track the performance of participating iPhone apps, has found that merely 30 percent of people purchasing iPhone apps use them the next day, and free apps clock in at a miserable 20 percent. Over the long run, loyal users dwindle to just a single percent of downloaders -- and this is where it gets strange: free apps get used a whopping 6.6 times as often as paid apps, which may not bode well for devs looking to make a decent living off the App Store, Windows Marketplace, Ovi Store, Android Market, and the million other mobile software store initiatives coming up over the next year. It's likely a testament to the fact that your average free app is simpler (and possibly more indispensable day in and day out) than your average paid app -- which means we should all be paying $15 for tip calculators and $25 for speed dialers.
Maybe the name should change to ...CrApp Store?
Oh if they raise prices that much I am "like, SO" blaming Engadget first!
I like how the title assumes app store users to all humans... How about iPhones users have the attention span of gnats?
Can you indicate which apps they are tracking? Maybe Pinch's selection of Apps that they're tracking just aren't very good...
500 million hmm?
Yeah how many were people downloading iFart to laugh while drunk and then removing it from their phone. Any yahoo with a basic knowledge of simple programming or the ability to port notepad on a Macbook can make a silly app for the app store and Apple will take it. The best app on the iPhone/iPod is the mp3 player. :)
Unless you count Maps, Pandora, Now Playing, OrbLive, Banking, Weather...