Mantia’s comparison of the App Store to MacBooks highlights how people’s perception can flavor their attitude.

Every few days someone finds my site by searching for how to scrape app store rankings. I no longer use that script, since I found it awkward to use. I’ve switched over to using MajicRank by Majic Jungle software.

MajicRank is a Mac application that polls the top 100 lists in iTunes to find your apps. It keeps a history so you can graph and also see the change in rank since the last run. I find it very easy to launch the app every day to keep tabs on my apps’ rankings.

Having become frustrated trying to check iTunes for app rankings, I decided to look for a better way to do it. That search led me to a post on Ben’s Dev Blog. The perl script given is priceless and saved me from having to write something up myself. It would be preferable to have a Mac app that does it, but this works for now.

Edit: I have switched to using a Mac app called MajicRank. See my post for more details.

Craig Hockenberry has a nice write up of what have been some of my biggest questions regarding the iPhone App Store.

The one question that I’d add is concerning the differences between the iPod Touch and iPhone. There are capability differences in the hardware. I assume that part of the review process is to determine compatibility, and that iPod Touch users will have fewer apps available as a result.

via Daring Fireball