As any developer for the iPhone will tell you, competition is intense on the AppStore. If there aren't already 5 or 6 apps like yours when you launch, you can bet there -will be- within weeks of you going live. One need only point to the number of flashlight apps, fart generators and beermug simulators to verify this.
Not everyone will rise to the top, but if you are interested in determining what your competition is, and how they have been doing compared to your app, I can help. Given a list of apps you care about benchmarking against, I can run a chart similar to this one to help you understand ranking (absolute rank within category), percentile (normalized rank for the day, to take into account the growing number of apps per category. ie. a percentile of .93 says you did better than 93% of the other apps in the category that day) and other metrics like popularity, free vs paid, etc.
Drop me a line at JimmyG@msn.com if you are interested in these consulting services...
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