The App Store is a treasure trove of data. App Store data can help you pick a category/segment, track trends, find the right price point, chart the total number of apps, track the rate of app approval and much more.
App Store data mining isn’t magic. It’s about finding data that’s exposed in iTunes, extracting it in a machine parse-able format, and doing something with it. This article will demonstrate each of those steps; further articles will expand on this topic.
As is almost always the case, this is best explained with an example. I’ll use a straightforward example to: let’s calculate the average selling price (ASP) for the top grossing apps.