apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com - 1/19/2009
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One of the results Apple’s executive team is sure to trot out Wednesday when it releases the company’s fiscal 2009 Q1 earnings report is the explosive growth of its iTunes App Store.
Six months after it opened for business, the store has published more than 15,000 programs for ...
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venturebeat.com - 1/20/2009
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True to its word, the live streaming video
site Ustream , has released its iPhone application into...
Apple’s App Store in time for people to watch President Obama’s inauguration on their iPhones live tomorrow. The app, which I’m ...
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Just in time for the Obama inauguration, Ustream’s ...
businessweek.com - 1/19/2009
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From Peter Burrows’s story for BusinessWeek on the
App Store’s 500 millionth download, which includes quotes from...
several “mobile” developers who are switching to iPhone-only developers: Indeed, analysts think iPhone ...
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App Store Hits 500 Million Downloads
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Apple’s App Store downloads and apps snowball
MacDailyNews —
... in two days between July 11 and July 13, they hovered in the range of 1.25 million to 2.72 million a day. Then, in the 42 days between Dec. 5 and Jan. 16, they took off again, averaging 4.76 million a day — nearly back to where they were that first heady weekend in July," Elmer-Dewitt reports. Full article, recommended for the charts it contains, not for the misleading headline which we predict headline-only-reading ignoramuses the world over will misinterpret and state as fact, here .
Daily Apple: Magic Keyboard, Giving Spirit, U.K. Tease [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network —
... App Store Over the Hill? No, Says One Blog - The more pessimistic folks in the crowd have been saying since Apple reached the 500 million apps downloaded milestone that the App store’s success has peaked. Apple 2.0 provides a nice counterpoint as to why that probably isn’t the case with this article. ...
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TechBlog —
... • Windows 7 - What It Means for Gamers - Not surprisingly, it's a better gaming experience. • Win 7 testers find (and fix themselves) troublesome installer bug - You want something done right, you gotta do it yourself! • Microsoft set to unveil MobileMe competitor next month - Three new services will launch at the Mobile World Congress. • Blackberry Storefront Accepting App Applications - Hoping to copy the success of Apple's iTunes App Store. Also Apple's App Store: Has it peaked? No! • Change.gov coming to the White House - Brace ...
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