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Apple’s iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPod touch closes in on 30,000 apps
MacDailyNews —
... to the count maintained by 148Apps, which updates its list automatically," Philip Elmer-DeWitt blogs for Fortune. "That’s up from 28,000 nine days ago and considerably higher than the official figure of 25,000 that Apple has been using," Elmer-DeWitt reports. In the full article, Elmer-DeWitt asserts that the rate of apps is "slowing," but he does so prematurely, without a full month of data, as a reader (and P.E.D. himself in an addendum to his article) points out. Full article here . MacDailyNews Take: Fortune should obviously change their headline, "iPhone App Store: ...
Apple iPhone App Store Slowing
Gadgetizer.com —
... According to Apple 2.0, developers are receiving delayed payments from Apple as well as delays in the apps themselves, which adds to the gradual slowing of new apps to the iTunes store. ...
Apple's iPhone: More Apps, More Problems
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... But of course, the more crowded the app store gets, the more difficult it for Apple to keep iPhone developers satisfied. Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt lists a number of recent issues developers have been clamoring about regarding the App Store: ...
iPhone App Store: 30,000 apps, but slowing
textually.org —
Shortly before 4 p.m. EDT on Thursday, eight months after it opened with 500 applications for the iPhone and iPod touch, Apples App Store passed the 30,000 mark, according to the count maintained by 148apps, which updates its list automatically. Apple 2.0 reports.
Thats up from 28,000 apps nine days ago and considerably higher than the official figure of 25,000 that Apple has been using.
But the flood of new titles seems to have slowed, and there are signs that the App Stores infrastructure is straining to keep up with what it ...
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TechBlog —
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