Other aspects of the evaluation process—like overall sales, App Store popularity, professional reviews, and user ratings—held less sway, but couldn’t be ignored. After all, when you see that Angry Birds (page 116) is the best-selling game several weeks in a row, gets overwhelmingly rave reviews, and has a devoted fan base around the world, you wonder what all the fuss is about and download the game. (And when the app’s sheer inventiveness consumes so much time that it nearly causes the author to miss a deadline, the app tends to get included in Best iPhone Apps.
