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SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone the most expensive application to ever hit Apple’s App Store’s Top 10

Friday, May 15, 2009 - 04:19 PM EDT

"For people who had been waiting since January to watch TV on their iPhones, price doesn’t seem to have been an object," Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.

"Within a day of its release Wednesday, SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone had shot to the No. 10 spot on Apple’s closely watched Top Paid Apps list," Elmer-DeWitt reports.

"The $29.99 program, which connects wirelessly with Sling Media’s Slingbox Internet video streaming set top box to display TV programming onto the screens of iPhones and iPod touches, is the most expensive application to have ever climbed that high," Elmer-DeWitt reports. "By Friday, SlingPlayer had dropped to No. 12, but it was still the only app in the top 100 bestsellers listed for more than $9.99."

"The most expensive item in the store, by far, is Lextech Labs’ iRa Pro, an $899.99 application that simultaneously displays live video feeds from up to 6 security cameras," Elmer-DeWitt reports. "Apparently its users find iRa Pro worth the price. Six of its seven reviewers gave it either four stars or five."

Full article, "Pushing the App Store price envelope," here.

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May 15, 09 - 04:22 pm Comment from: Cubert

Higher priced apps can only be a good thing for the App Store.

More iPhone developers = more Mac developers.

May 15, 09 - 04:26 pm Comment from: Gabriel

But wait - I thought lowest price always wins? That's what those Laptop Hunter ads keep saying!

May 15, 09 - 04:57 pm Comment from: Sixvodkas

"I Am Rich" - $999.99
Wish Apple had kept that one at the App Store!

May 15, 09 - 06:22 pm Comment from: Me In LA

Um, no.
Lots of medical apps over that price?
WTH???

May 15, 09 - 06:45 pm Comment from: Me In LA

Goto iTunes Store / Applications / Medical.
Someone's talking out their fat www butts!
RESEARCH!

May 15, 09 - 06:46 pm Comment from: Me In LA

And the Top 10 is bogus.
I want the formula for that one.

_Just bored, sorry
All in jest.

May 15, 09 - 06:52 pm Comment from: bon

too pricey.

May 15, 09 - 08:13 pm Comment from: Mactacular

I got it the day it came out. Well worth the price. Works perfectly and as expected. $30 is the price a single BluRay. The only people that seem to be complaining are the same tools that love bit torrent and movies shot on handycams.

May 15, 09 - 08:51 pm Comment from: Cubert

Me in LA,
No medical app is in the Top 10.

May 15, 09 - 08:54 pm Comment from: Cubert

Mactacular,
It depends on what is being shot on that handycam.

May 16, 09 - 12:45 pm Comment from: eMax

And the credentials to actually show up in the top 10 ?????

NO ONE KNOWS!

May 19, 09 - 12:44 am Comment from: obtusegoose

Mark my words: In a couple months it will drop to $9.99. Then, and only then, will I buy it.

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