{"id":17072,"date":"2017-01-31T14:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17072"},"modified":"2017-02-02T14:46:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:46:23","slug":"mac-app-store-top-charts-for-70-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/31\/mac-app-store-top-charts-for-70-cents\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac App Store Top Charts for 70 Cents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/70cents.html\">Jeff Johnson<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lapcatsoftware\/status\/826465957728153601\">tweet<\/a>):\n<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/70cents.html\"><p>I&rsquo;m not sure exactly what it means to be near the bottom of the overall charts. I do know exactly what it means to be near the bottom of the Social Networking charts: nothing! There are 180 apps each on the Top Paid Social Networking and Top Grossing Social Networking charts. My app was 18 out of 180 and sold 1 unit.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>We do know that some developers are doing very well on the Mac App Store. The question is, how many? It&rsquo;s hard not to conclude that the top charts themselves are extremely top-heavy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/24\/exploring-the-app-stores-top-grossing-chart\/\">Exploring the App Store&rsquo;s Top Grossing Chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2017-02-02): <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/charting-on-the-mac-app-store\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/charting-on-the-mac-app-store\/\">\n<p>Of note, most of the apps ahead of Underpass are third-party implementations of popular iOS apps like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger. And, at number thirteen in the Top Grossing chart, Apple&rsquo;s long-outdated FaceTime app. That doesn&rsquo;t sound like a healthy ecosystem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Johnson (tweet): I&rsquo;m not sure exactly what it means to be near the bottom of the overall charts. I do know exactly what it means to be near the bottom of the Social Networking charts: nothing! There are 180 apps each on the Top Paid Social Networking and Top Grossing Social Networking charts. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,30,32,39,1464],"class_list":["post-17072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macappstore","tag-underpass"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17096,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17072\/revisions\/17096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}