Sunday, April 4, 2010

Doodle Jump - All Time Most Downloaded Paid App

Doodle Jump has just announced being the most downloaded iPhone paid app ever, and I second that. They claim 3,5 million downloads, while only three weeks before they claimed 3 million, which shows the incredibly fast progression of this "insanely addictive game".

My estimate was 3,3 million, but I guess it's increasing very fast so I will update that in the next rankings.

Doodle Jump as a number 1 paid app is also a symbol of a now common fact: Most paid apps best sellers are games.

However, we can estimate based on Tap Tap Revenge, Bubble Wrap or Touch Hockey Estimates that if Doodle Jump was free, they could have sold 5 times more applications. Even at less than a dollar, placing an app in the "paid apps" category probably reduces your market by more than 70%.

This is also one of the first app to appear in popular culture, at least in Sheldon's vocabulary in Big Bang Theory :)

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