My iPhone App Store Stats
January 10 2009We’re almost at the 6 month-iversary of the Apple App Store, so I thought I’d take a look at just how much I’ve used it. Plus, being a geek, it seemed like a fun little project to grab the data and work it all out.
I hoarde all my e-mail in Google Mail, so I did a quick search for all my iTunes receipts (‘iTunes label:eReceipts’), and gave them a tag of iTunesReceipts. Then, I downloaded those mails to plain text files, with the help of OfflineIMAP. A short Python script later, and the job was done. If anyone’s interested in getting a copy, let me know and I’ll clean it up for public consumption.
Anyway, onto the stats!
First receipt date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008
Last receipt date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 (so, a 6 month period)
Total apps downloaded: 141
Of those:
Free apps: 116
Paid apps: 25
Total cost: £69.75
Average cost per app (across all apps): 49p
Average cost per app (just paid apps): £2.79
That’s rather a lot of apps, but I’m not too surprised. I don’t really think I have my money’s worth out of that £70 though - there’s only a few of the apps I paid for that I use on a regular basis. I’ll stick up another post soon regarding my favourite iPhone apps.