Why is Apple not showing up the # of downloads?

[joelmejiaganan]

...and, does anybody know any info about the # of downloads so far for any of the top 25 paid Apps?

Thanks

[arn]

they stopped publishing those numbers.

so they aren't available.

arn

[ldkaplan]

They should...I want to see how much the $.99 flashlight made!

[jpyre]

Yeah too bad none of the AppStore flashlights are allowed to auto full brightness...

Unlike the free jailbroken one

But alas I must give up NES, Flashlight, and Terminal and get to testing 2.1.... :/

[joelmejiaganan]

I mean, what's the problem about showing this?

Next month, when developers start to receive payments we will know if it is worth to get into the iPhone Apps business.

(thanks and excuse my english)

[mr_zorg]

Because it's information that is potentially sensitive to the developers. Let's say, for instance, that an app is listed as having 23,000 downloads. Since you know the app is listed at $9.99, quick math will tell you that 23,000 x $9.99 = $229,770. Since we know developers get 70% and Apple gets 30%, that tells us the developer made $160,839 off the sales of that app. The developer probably doesn't want you knowing that! Nor does Apple want you to know their cut of the action was $68,931. I'm actually rather surprised they published it in the first place. Somebody probably just didn't think about it.

[dugbug]

perhaps they could add download ranking for the category.

I also think they need one more level of categories. Games list is only going to get much much worse. And Apple, make a category for Jirbo while you are at it (shees).

-d

[BulletDev]

I sure wish they would enable this again.

Maybe they could have it so us developers can choose whether or not to show downloads......

[PoV]

Then it'd be a safe bet that most wouldn't. For both reasons.

[VeganTnT]

Originally Posted by arn

they stopped publishing those numbers.

so they aren't available.

arn

I didn't realize that!

After Touchgrind was released I went to check out the site of Illusion Labs/Codify and I saw they had a "# of downloads" banner for Labyrinth located here: http://labyrinth.codify.se/

so is the info not public anymore?
or is this banner not real?