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App Store tally: 20,000 apps in seven months
App Store tally: 20,000 apps in seven months
Apple isn’t commenting officially, but iPhone app activity aggregator apptism said the 20,000th iPhone app arrived in the App Store sometime Tuesday.
Coder's Half-Million Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush Is Still On
Coder's Half-Million Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush Is Still On
blog.wired.com — Apple's iPhone application store has gotten as crowded as Beyonce concert, with more than 20,000 apps available... -- but one independent developer still managed to rake in $600,000 in a single month with a single iPhone game. Ethan Nicholas, ... (more) Coder's Half-Million Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush ...
The iPhone Becomes a Web Server
The iPhone Becomes a Web Server
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The Experiment | None
The Experiment | None
appcubby.com — This post may make a bit more sense in light of my two prior posts: " Financial... Realities of the App Store " and " App Store Pricing (It's not a free market!) " With App Store shoppers seemingly hesitant to risk $5+ on a new app, I decided to do a ... (more) The Experiment | None
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App Store tally: 20,000 apps in seven months
textually.org — According to apptism, an iPhone app activity aggregator, the 20,000th iPhone app was added to the store some time on Tuesday. MacWorld reports. If apptism’s count is accurate—when contacted for comment, Apple declined to confirm the number of apps available for download—it would mean that 5,000 new programs had arrived on the App Store in less than a month. On January 16, Apple officially announced that it had topped the 15,000 app mark. ...

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