apple.com - 10/24/2008
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SAN FRANCISCO September 9, 2008 Apple today announced that iPhone and iPod touch users have downloaded more than 100 million applications from its groundbreaking new App Store since its launch on July 11, 2008. More than 3,000 applications are currently available on the App Store, with over 90 ...
blog.wired.com - 10/30/2008
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blog.wired.com —
One of the great things about the iPhone
is the regular software updates. Free and automatic improvements...
are piped, hot and steaming, to your pocket computer. There next version of the iPhone operating system will be v2.2. We don't know exactly ...
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Eight Things to Expect in the Next iPhone Update
unwiredview.com - 10/31/2008
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unwiredview.com —
Mobile Safari on the iPhone is great. You
can pinch-out/double click to zoom in, pinch-in/double click to...
zoom out, you can open up to 8 tabs and it also works as a local Word/Excel document and PDF reader. It doesn’t hurt that it’s one ...
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Opera Mini for iPhone rejected by Apple from App Store
fiercemobilecontent.com - 10/22/2008
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fiercemobilecontent.com —
Apple announced its iPhone App Store will reach
the 200 million download benchmark sometime Wednesday, just over...
100 days after the virtual storefront opened on July 11. "The 200 millionth app! We've never seen anything like this in our careers," said ...
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App Store poised to top 200 million downloads
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AppLoop Mobile Application Generator: Create an App in 2 Minutes
iSmashPhone - Turn your Phone into your MyPhone —
... technical know-how, your solution has arrived. Silicon Valley start-up Apploop, an advertising, publishing, and analytics solution for mobile applications, has developed the Mobile Application Generator. This program takes RSS feeds and converts them into mobile Apps in under two minutes.
From the developers: Only 3% of (self-selecting) developers know how to program Cocoa. As a result, few have been able to enjoy the extremely rapid growth and initial excitement of the AppStore - content creators are left sitting on ...
Hard Times? Not for iPhone Developers
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... Casel is one of many employers
catching onto a rumbling mania surrounding the iPhone's popular App
Store. In September -- just two months after the App Store's launch -- Apple reported
that iPhone apps hit a milestone of 100 million downloads. Some
independent developers are striking it rich with their iPhone apps. For
instance, developer ...
Apple: 300 Million App Store Downloads, Growth Flat (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... Apple announced that it had sold 100 million apps on Sept. 9. So it took 43 days -- from Sept. 10 to Oct. 22 -- to reach 200 million apps, or about 2.3 million apps a day. ...
App Growth, PalmOS vs iPhoneOS
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Apple sells 1.5B apps in App Store's first year
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... and iPod touch applications during the App Store's first year of existence.
Despite the slow economy, App Store sales appear to have accelerated since last year, showing a fairly positive polynomial trend. Apple is selling apps roughly five times faster than it did when the store opened.
The App Store now features 65,000 apps available to users in 77 countries. The iPhone Developer Program includes 100,000 members, too.
(Chart sources: 1, 2, 3, 4.) TUAWApple sells 1.5B apps in App Store's first ...
iPhone apps top 2 billion sold, 85,000 available
iPhone J.D. —
... of course, many apps are free). Apple said that more than half
a billion apps were downloaded in the last three months alone. Indeed, it has
been less than three weeks since Apple announced
that there were over 75,000 apps and 1.8 billion downloads. A little history to put this in perspective:
7/10/08: App Store opens
7/14/08: 10 million apps sold; 800 apps available (Apple PR)
9/9/08: 100 million apps sold; 3,000 apps available. (Apple PR)
10/22/08: 200 million apps sold; 5,550 apps available (Macworld) ...
100,000 apps available
iPhone J.D. —
... that there are now over 100,000 apps in the app store
and "well over" two billion iPhone apps have been downloaded, an increase from September 28, 2009 when Apple announced 85,000 apps available and "more than" two billion apps downloaded. A little history to put this in perspective:
7/10/08: App Store opens
7/14/08: 10 million apps sold; 800 apps available (Apple PR)
9/9/08: 100 million apps sold; 3,000 apps available. (Apple PR)
10/22/08: 200 million apps sold; 5,550 apps available (Macworld)
12/5/08: ...
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