Nielsen Releases Top 10 iPhone Apps of 2012

These lists are no surprise to anyone. I'm more interested in ranks 11-30.

I could've told you that. What next? Nielsen releases top websites of the internet? Google.com, YouTube.com, Facebook.com, Yahoo.com... Don't need a genius to figure that one out.

I've always hoped the stocks app would be dropped from default install. I mean we're forced to have stocks, maps, weather, newstand, etc. I wish all of these were just downloads from the store if desired.

My most hated apps are: Newstand > Stocks > Weather.

Mostly because there are better apps out there.

SnowLeopard OSX said:

Wow. Maps is already in 1st place? Wasn't it released like last week? Haha, that's crazy. Nice list, though. Hopefully that year to date % change for YouTube really sends a message to Google to finally optimize their YouTube mobile app -- it's pretty messy at the moment.

Thanks for posting this.

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What is crazy is that you can't read correctly the news. Apple Maps is first, not google one... They stopped their study 2012Q3...

Spanky Deluxe said:

The fact that Stocks is number four on the list suggests Nielsen's study is flawed. Nobody uses that.

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Not sure if this counts, but almost everybody who uses Notification Centre will use Stocks (the scrolling stock bar, since most will probably not turn it off).

Kind of getting sick of the same list over and over. Looking forward to more 'innovative' apps out there to top the charts. There are some very very nice apps on the app store which once discovered really light up your device. Few I can think of include Sesame, Clear, Scanner Pro, Everest, Digits (would have said CalcBot but TapBots has decided not to update these apps or respond to customer questions on any app besides TweetBot), etc.