Even as the polish seems to have dulled on the Apple corporation's once blindingly shiny brand image, the company still has massive and impressive
numbers with which to dazzle us. The Apple App Store is counting down to its 50 billionth download in the coming days, and the company is marking the occasion with an updated set of lists around the
top 25-all-time app downloads.
On the iPhone, the free category is dominated by third-party brands that have seen enormous migrations of their user base to the smartphone, or in the case of
Instagram have pretty much been invented by the phone. In the paid category, it's no surprise to see gaming fully dominate, with the legendary Angry Birds franchise leading the way.
Perhaps
the most striking aspect of the top app list is how person-to-person connections, via social networks and calling/messaging tools, remain the leading function that people pursue.
On the
iPad, utility and entertainment dominate the top tiers, led by Skype for iPad and followed by The Weather Channel app as well as Netflix, Angry Birds, and Kindle from Amazon. On the paid content side,
Apple itself occupies several of the top slots, with its word processor Pages as the number one paid app on the tablet, with GarageBand in the seventh position and Keynote the 10th.
In
addition to the utilities from Apple that are among the iPad bestsellers, we can see how the tablet has emerged as a replacement for the laptop among many users as well, as it has emerged as an
entertainment and newsgathering hub. When we move down into the bottom end of the top downloads list, we start seeing the ABC Player, YouTube, eBay and CNN. Likewise, we see utilities aimed at moving
content and viewing content across screens, such as Dropbox and Adobe Reader. The full lists are reproduced below.
Top 25 All Time Paid Apps - iPad
- Pages
- Angry Birds HD
- Angry Birds Seasons HD
- Where Is My Water?
- Fruit Ninja HD
- Angry Birds Space HD
- GarageBand
- Words with
Friends HD
- Cut the Rope HD
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Angry Birds Star Wars HD
- GoodReader for iPad
- Scrabble HD for iPad
- Minecraft –
Pocket Edition
- Plants Vs Zombies HD
- Notability
- Monopoly for iPad
- Quick Office Pro HD
- Star Walk HD
- Draw Something
- iMovie
- iPhoto
- Where’s My Perry?
- Bad Piggies HD
Top 25 All-Time Free Apps for IPad
- Skype for iPad
- The Weather
Channel for iPad
- Netflix
- Angry Birds HD Free
- Kindle
- Facebook
- Pandora Radio
- Calculator for iPad Free
- Fruit Ninja HD Free
- Words with Friends HD Free
- Google Earth
- ABC Player
- Calculator Pro for iPad Free
- Temple Run
- YouTube
- EBay for iPad
- CNN App for
iPad
- Dropbox
- Adobe Reader
- Twitter
- Solitaire
- NYTimes for iPad
- Temple Run 2
- Hulu Plus
- Draw Something Free
Top 25 All-Time Paid Apps for IPhone
- Angry Birds
- Fruit Ninja
- Doodle Jump
- Cut the Rope
- Angry Birds Seasons
- WhatsApp Messenger
- Camera+
- Words with Friends
- Tiny Wings
- Angry Birds Space
- Pocket God’s Return
- Plants Vs Zombies
- The
Game of Life Classic
- The Moron Test
- Where’s My Water?
- Draw Something
- Monopoly
- Angry Birds Star Wars
- MotionX GPS Drive
- Skee-Ball
- Scrabble
- UNO
- Minecraft – Pocket Edition
- Color Splash
- The Sins 3
Top 25 All-Time Free Apps for
IPhone
- Facebook
- Pandora Radio
- Instagram
- YouTube
- Skype
- Words with Friends Free
- The Weather Channel
- Twitter
- Temple Run
- Google Search
- Netflix
- Shazam
- Angry Birds Free
- Draw Something Free
- Flashlight
- Facebook
Messenger
- Google Earth
- Fruit Ninja Free
- iHeartRadio
- Movies by Flexter with Rotten Tomatoes
- Bump
- eBay
- Pac-Man Lite
- Groupon
- Google Maps