“The new Apple TV has been available for three days now, with response to the product generally strong with seemingly good sales, based off some talks with Apple Store employees,” Benjamin Mayo reports for 9to5Mac.
“A big part of the appeal of Apple TV is the tvOS App Store,” Mayo reports. “The Top Charts and Categories are currently unaccessible. Developer Steve Troughton-Smith has worked around this by accessing the web chart data directly, by spoofing the Apple TV headers when making the request. He has posted the Apple TV US Top Paid, Top Free and Top Grossing charts as of yesterday. There’s some interesting trends in the data.”
“Perhaps unsurprisingly, games dominate both Top Paid and Top Grossing charts,” Mayo reports. “A big trend is that the pricing on the non-free apps is significantly higher than the iOS equivalents. Pricing in the range of $5-$10 for AAA titles is the norm with very few apps priced at the iPhone App Store trademark 99 cent price point.”
Read more, including the list of Apple TV US Top 10 Paid apps, in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Pricing is likely to come down as we saw with the introduction of iPad, whose apps were considerably higher-priced to start, but worked their way down down as the number of apps and competition proliferated.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]