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Tue, 08 Dec 2009 Apple reveals iTunes highest-grossing iPhone apps of 2009

The biggest money-makers of the year are revealed on the iTunes Store in the UK

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The biggest grossing iPhone applications of the year are revealed today on the iTunes Store in the UK.

The Top Ten are:

Apps (Biggest Grossing)
1. CoPilot Live UK & Ireland (ALK Technologies)
2. TomTom UK & Ireland (Tom Tom International BV)
3. The Sims 3 (BV)
4. National Rail Enquiries (Agant)
5. Tom Tom Western Europe (Tom Tom International BV)
6. Scrabble (Electronic Arts Nederland BV)
7. WORMS (Team 17 Software)
8. Sonic The Hedgehog (SEGA)
9. MobileNavigator British Isles (NAVIGON AG)
10. Need For Speed Undercover (Electronic Arts Nederland BV)

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Nick said on Tue, 08 Dec 2009

Not surprisingly, they are all professionally created apps. Also unsurprisingly many of them are expensive. Just goes to show: quality wins out, and people are prepared to pay for it.

@ Nick said on Tue, 08 Dec 2009

If it's highest grossing of course the most expensive come out on top, doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure that out. This stat means nothing. If it's the most downloaded used, irrespective of cost then you have a real stat.

Slarek said on Tue, 08 Dec 2009

It will be interesting to see how the National Rail Enquiries App fares next year now that the free (and frankly superior) Trainline.com version is available. Sometimes quality doesn't come at a price.

@ @Nick said on Tue, 08 Dec 2009

You are an idiot, that obviously doesn't understand economics. Why is the 'most downloaded' necessarily more important than the 'highest-grossing'? As Nick said, it proves if developers make a quality product then they'll still sell whatever the price...

@@@ Nick said on Tue, 08 Dec 2009

You're the idiot, read what I said, not what you think was said 'If it's the most downloaded used, irrespective of cost then you have a real stat.'

Nick said on Tue, 08 Dec 2009

OK OK Calm down. Good lord I didn't come here to troll a flame war… My point was only that a good quality item will still sell, even at a high price point. The most downloaded stats, however, will be heavily weighted by free crap that huge numbers download because it's free, use once and then dismiss and delete.

Dennis Stevenson said on Tue, 08 Dec 2009

I am far more interested in which apps were downloaded the most, regardless of cost. Apple - please tell us.

fifi said on Wed, 09 Dec 2009

Biggest grossing isn't, imho, the best indicator. A ratio of downloads to revenue would be a better indicator. Under the current metrics, a single sale of an application that cost £1000 would be more "successful" than 999 downloads of an app that cost £1.

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