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App Store tally: 20,000 apps in seven months | iPhone Central
App Store tally: 20,000 apps in seven months | iPhone Central
by Jim Dalrymple , Macworld.com iPhone and iPod touch users looking to download software from Apple’s App Store now have 20,000 programs to choose from—at least according to one Web site’s count. Apptism , an iPhone app activity aggregator, says that the 20,000th iPhone app was added to the ...
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 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
★ Anti-Bootlegging Measures and the iPhone App Store
daringfireball.net — Marco Arment , responding to my expectation that iPhone developers are set to begin implementing their own... anti-bootlegging measures: The ideal piracy detection system doesn’t make it immediately obvious to the crackers that their efforts have ... (more) ★ Anti-Bootlegging Measures and the iPhone App Store
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Ya hay 20.000 aplicaciones para el iPhone
Celularis — ... informa que se quebró la barrera de las 20.000 aplicaciones el día 10 de febrero de 2009. 24 días y 5.000 aplicaciones más que el 16 de enero de 2009, cuando Apple anunciaba que la iTunes App Store había superado las 15.000 aplicaciones disponibles para descargar y las 500 millones de descargas. Nosotros seguimos pensando que iPhone + iTunes App Store = máquina de generar dinero… y tú? Vía MacWorld ...

5Words for February 11th, 2009
Technologizer — ... Howdy–here’s what’s going on: Twenty thousand iPhone apps? Wow. For-pay Android apps imminent. Remember BeOs? Haiku clones it. Windows Mobile Firefox movin’ along. New BlackBerry Curve arriving soon. Ahoy! Treasure found in Google Earth. Book authors hate talking Kindle. Zuckerberg college buddies paid fortune. Canadian bookseller launches iPhone rival. No more Windows 7 downloads. Microsoft ships four ...

App Store surpasses 20,000 iPhone Apps
MobileCrunch — ... can be seen with a quick browse through Apptism’s catalog) that a very significant portion of these applications are “Lite” (free) versions of premium counterparts. Should these watered down, sample sized releases be counted individually? With all of these apps filling the market, it’s getting a bit tough to hunt out the good stuff beyond the Top 10 that Apple provides. Got an obscure favorite? Let us know what it is in the comments. [Via MacWorld] Crunch Network: TechCrunch obsessively ...

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