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hssky97

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Jan 20, 2010
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Hey whats happening forum! :D I have a question for ya', How many downloads/day for apps that are in the top five?
 
Looks to be around 10's of thousands per day.

Here's a couple press releases for Angry Birds, which floats around #1 to #4:

http://socialtimes.com/angry-birds-...-on-android-beats-12-million-on-iphone_b40929

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20013385-233.html

But the number of downloads falls off steeply from the top spot to only a few per day around app #40000 out of 400,000 total apps.

Added:

I found a couple blog posts that attempt to estimate the number of downloads from the App store ranking:

http://ajnaware.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/estimating-app-sales-from-rankings-part-2/

and

http://www.musingpaw.com/2011/04/estimating-iphone-app-store-sales-from.html

Doesn't look super accurate, but the equations are probably more useful than throwing darts at random numbers.
 
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