This section features dozens of apps broken into two groups: Free and Paid. Within these two categories, you’ll find the Top Overall apps, Top Games, Top Entertainment, Top Utilities, Top Social Networking and Top Music. It’s a very comprehensive list, and I’d guess that even old iPhone veterans like myself will find an app or two that we’ve missed along the way.
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Also, considering that games are such a large percentage of the App Store, it might make sense to make the Top Games section a little larger than the others. I already have just about all of the top 10 free and paid games, but if it showed the top 15 or 20, I may not have some of those.
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Expect all the apps shown on this page to see massive jumps in downloads. That, in turn, may make quite a few other iPhone app developers rush their 2009 apps out the door to have the best chance of making this list next year.
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