Three Developer Firms Account for Nearly 5% of All Apps in iPhone App Store: 943 by One Publisher Pulled

MobileCrunch’s article titled…

Apple bans App Store’s 3rd-most prolific developer

…is one of those stories that makes you wonder what is going on over at Apple in their app purity queue. It reports that a single iPhone app development firm, Perfect Acumen, published 943 apps in the iTunes app store. These apps were in the relatively high price range (around $4.99 each). However, Apple decided that these apps were not quite up to their standards and removed all of them. That’s right, all 943 apps. My question is: What took Apple so long to figure this out? If all the apps are low-quality, wouldn’t the first couple of dozen or maybe the first couple of hundred provided enough information?

Here’s something else to think about: With 943 published apps, Perfect Acumen is only the third most prolific publisher. This means there are two other iPhone app publishers with 1000 (or more) apps each in the iTunes store. Who are they?

FYI: According to 148apps.biz, there were 64,131 apps in the iTunes Apps Store as of August 3 at 2:55am Pacific Time. Assuming this included the 943 apps before they were pulled, Perfect Acumen contributed 1.47% of the total apps in the store.

Assuming the other two prolific app publishers each had a bit over 1000 apps published, this means that three publishers account for 4.7% of all the apps in the app store.

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