For 8 straight days, Phoneys was the #1 paid app in the iMessage App Store. On the 9th, while still #1, Apple pulled it.

At least it went out on top.

Last Friday, when I first wrote about Phoneys, I said I was faced with a difficult decision and wasn’t sure what I was going to do. But, really, the best choice was always pretty obvious. By not updating Phoneys before yesterday’s deadline and forcing Apple to pull it, everyone that bought the stickers will still be able to use them as is until they decide to delete them.

But, even though Phoneys is as dead as all those predictions that 2016 would be “the year of the bot”, the iMessage App Store is alive and thriving. And at not even 4 weeks old there’s a lot we still don’t know about it. So, I thought it’d be useful to publicly go into Phoneys’ numbers and see what they can teach us about the current state of the iMessage App Store.

Sales