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Apr 30
2010
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Lately, there's been taking a deep view into the AppStore and because of the continuously increase in sales of the new iPad, AppStore has more applications day by day. AppStore counts now 4870 applications, which is a 32.7% increase over the past two weeks. From all of those applications, 3437 are exclusively for iPad, while the remaining are for both iPads and iPhones. 
Games are the most applications in AppStore, with 1577 titles (32%), followed by Entertainment and Books with 455 and 396 titles. Since Apple released the iPad, the Games category tend to become more and more full with this kind of applications, as it seems people are playing a lot nowadays. However, most of the applications are not free. From the 186,414 applications for the iPhone 73% are paid, while 80% of the 4870 applications for iPads are also paid. A user will have to pay $3.82 on average for an iPhone application, and $4.67 for an iPad one. The Medical and Finance categories are the most expensive in AppStore, with an average of $42.11 and $18.48. For the same kind of application, but for iPhone, you will have to pay significantly less, with an average of $10.74 and $5.74.
As the relationships between Apple and Adobe are still on fire, it just seems Steve Jobs' company has the upper hand above Adobe, because with almost 200.000 applications in the AppStore, few of them request Flash. Everybody expects the AppStore to continue to grow steadily as developers move to the platform. Though there are so many applications, some important names are missing from the list, as Foursquare or Facebook, at the developers might like to start and design those applications too, as there are important for any iPad user. There are, anyway, cool available applications too, such as The Wall Street Journal, Epicurious (cooking application), The Elements (chemistry lab) or Popular Science+ (science magazine).
