Yes, all but two of the top 80 highest grossing iPhone apps in America are now free downloads. The freemium beast has eaten the entire app industry. But there are still a couple of rare exceptions out there — paid downloads that generate millions of dollars of revenue. The most well-known is Minecraft, the Swedish blockbuster game that enablers players to create rich, if pixelated, environments. Minecraft remains a top 20 grosser on both the U.S. iPhone and iPad app charts despite its shockingly high download price of $7. Fascinatingly, another paid title with blocky landscapes that has been able to break into mainstream success in 2014 is Monument Valley — a minimalistic, elegiac game about a princess traversing a bleak landscape
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