http://blogs.msdn.com/brandonturner/archive/tags/Apple/default.aspxTags: Appleen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/brandonturner/archive/2008/12/19/it-might-cost-you-to-be-popular.aspxSat, 20 Dec 2008 04:28:29 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9243204Brandon Turner1http://blogs.msdn.com/brandonturner/comments/9243204.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/brandonturner/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9243204<p>Earlier today I grabbed some of the <a href="http://blog.charlesteague.com/applications.csv">Apple Usage App Store</a> data from <a href="http://dragonstyle.typepad.com/">Charles Teague</a>.</p> <p>I wanted to see if there was an correlation between popularity and the price of any application.&#160; Popularity is a magic number calculated by Apple and it ranges from 0 to 1.</p> <p>I removed all the free application, and ~10 applications that cost more then 100 dollars(they were all mostly 0 popularity) and then plotted the popularity vs. price. </p> <p>Its pretty clear, for your application to pick up any acceptance on the iPhone App Store, you will need to lower the price of your application.&#160; Or at least have a free version that you use as a vehicle to up-sell your premium version.</p> <p>Only 3 non free applications made it past the 0.15 hash mark, where as 620 free application made it past this mark.</p> <p>&#160;<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/brandonturner/WindowsLiveWriter/Itmightcostyoutobepopular_EFCE/image_2.png"><img title="image" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" height="260" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/brandonturner/WindowsLiveWriter/Itmightcostyoutobepopular_EFCE/image_thumb.png" width="524" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9243204" width="1" height="1">AppleiPhone