The small apps are free money to Apple because Apple can earn interest on the money while the developer is trying to reach $250 and in some cases, they may never end up having to write that check. Unless your app is very popular (or very expensive) you will lose out because Apple won't even write you a check until you hit $250 (which is quite a high threshold compared to other revenue schemes such as Google AdSense), and if you're past the cutoff date for that particular month, you have to wait until next month to receive your check. '!!!!!!AAAAAAAAA++++++ Application' just to get their apps to the top of the alphabetical listing. It really cheapens the store, as do the applications with loads of symbols in front of their name (e.g. It disappoints me to see people offering 'flashlight' applications (basically just a white screen) for $0.99 when you could just open a blank Safari page for free to achieve the same effect. I will undoubtedly create certain paid software applications in the future but these would be larger applications with more wide-ranging uses and not small utilities for a single purpose.

That's not because I feel the quality of DR's apps is poor, just that the functions they perform fall into a very narrow category (e.g. All of our apps so far (both web apps and desktop apps) have been free - I am running a business but I don't like charging people for something I don't feel is worth paying for. This doesn't really surprise me but it is a little disappointing. While I was on their site, I also spotted another article detailing how the percentage of free apps is falling. They've got four feeds listing New Applications, Recently Updated Applications, Top 100 Free Applications and Top 100 Paid Applications.

Well, the kind folks at Pinch Media have decided to fill that gap, offering up their own feeds. ITunes App Store RSS feedsAs I mentioned earlier, it was a bit disappointing that Apple hasn't offered up RSS feeds for iTunes App Store applications.

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