App Store Category Combinations
Mar 8, 2010 
With over 165,000 apps available in the iTunes App Store there's a lot of variety, but there's also a lot of duplication. Many apps are clones of other more popular apps. In the interest of App discovery, we examined some uncommon categorizations for games in the App Store and present the results in this article.
First, a bit of background: Apps can be listed in multiple categories, and most are. Games are usually included in two game-specific categories (like "Arcade" or "Puzzle") in addition to their primary category. By analyzing the permutations of these categories we're able to slice up the vast universe of games into smaller segments, which allows for more detailed browsing. For example, on the right is a pie chart with the distribution of Word Games in the iTunes App Store.
Weather Games
The rarest type of game in the App Store is the weather game. In fact, there's only one that has real weather substance (two if you count the Celsius and Fahrenheit versions), another is a jigsaw puzzle with a weather theme. There are six other apps that are listed in both Weather and Games, but they aren't real games1
News Games
Compared to Weather, the News category has twice as many apps that are also in "Games", however most of them aren't actually games. There are about two-dozen apps that appear in both "News" and "Games". In this category the four apps that are actually games are all trivia.
Navigation Games
With less than 10 real games, Navigation is the second least common category. All of the games are quite new, and all of them leverage the iPhone's GPS-capabilities.
Business & Finance Games
The next three least common game categories are Business, Finance, and Medical. Almost all of the business games have something to do with "fun meeting jargon" - only one, Millionaire Tycoon, is a real game about business. Finance games, its no surprise, are mostly pretend stock trading, along with one kids game to teach piggy-bank skills, and a handfull of "Financial Bailout" spoofs.
Medical Games
Only slightly more common than "Business / Finance Games" are "Medical Games". There are unexpected apps like "Stool Scanner", and more traditional games including lots of quizzes (anyone up for a game of Speed Angiology), but there are also a few action games, like Dr. Nano- 3D Artery Adventure.
1 To explain what is a "real game", it's easiest to explain what it is not - And that's easiest done by example. One app excluded from Weather Games is Aurora - Northern Lights - That just isn't a game at all.
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