Pandora is the #2 App of All-Time
TechCrunch reported this week that Apple has unveiled a page within the iTunes Store that shows the top app downloads of all time. In the list Pandora shows up as the #2 most downloaded free iPhone app of all-time.
This news got me thinking about the first time I saw the iPhone. Pandora was one of the first apps I played with. I remember thinking it was nothing short of magical. The integration was so powerful in its simplicity. It wasn't until that moment that I saw the true potential of iPhone. I remember thinking at the time: "if Pandora could do this so well, imagine what the rest of developers out there can do..."
In fact, it was Pandora's iPhone integration that led me to look for a job there a few months later. I knew it was going to be important. Exactly how big, I had no idea. The iPhone was truly a game-changer for Pandora. As Pandora's founder Tim Westergren said on Charlie Rose, the iPhone's importance to Pandora is impossible to overstate. It really changed users' perceptions of Pandora into an anytime, anywhere experience.
Pandora is also the #1 free iPad app of all-time. For those of you who have seen the iPad integration, it is no surprise why. It is equally impressive in its simplicity.
Here are the full lists of the top free iPhone and iPad apps:
- Pandora
- Google Mobile App
- Shazam
- Movies by Flixster
- The Weather Channel
- Google Earth
- Bump
- Skype
- Paper Toss
- Pandora
- Google Mobile App
- Movies by Flixster
- Google Earth
- Yelp
- Fandango Movies
- Remote
- iBooks
- Bible
- Solitaire
