Report: Games Are AppStore's Top Paid Downloads
By Alice Turner
10:29, July 18th 2008
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Report: Games Are AppStore's Top Paid Downloads

While free stuff rules the AppStore download charts, among the paid software downloaded, games rank first. Mobile ad group Medialets has watched Apple's innovative third-party applications store and came to some interesting conclusions.

Their listings reveal that the most downloaded paid application is a game. So are the vast majority of the next dozens of paid downloads from Apple's AppStore. It seems that predictions which claimed the iPhone will be a major gaming platform, rivaling similar portable gadgets, are more than accurate.

The most downloaded game is Super Monkey Ball, which costs $9.99, followed by Texas Hold'em, Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D, Enigmo and, of course, Tetris. The winner, Super Monkey Ball, lets players guide a little monkey encased in a transparent ball to victory by tilting and rolling him through a variety of slopes and turns.

Among free applications, the first is also a game: Tap Tap Revenge, which is a music game which invites users to tap through the beats or shake left and right as arrows fall. The second place is taken by Remote, which turns the iPhone into a Wi-Fi remote for your computer or Apple TV in order to control your multimedia library.

In other AppStore news, music streaming and social community Last.fm also launched a free native app that can stream any of the 5+ million songs from its library, recommend new songs, and give users access to their favorite artists and tracks.



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