How my simple iPhone app made it to the top of the App Store

Slightly more than a month back I wrote this little iPhone app (App Store link), almost a toy app really, to check the usage of my data plan with my local telco (Singtel). I wanted to scratch an itch and I also really didn’t want to exceed my data plan – the fees are excessive.

Anyway, I submitted it to the iPhone App Store for approval as a free app and named it Singtel Data Usage. No points for ...