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i.gizmodo.com - 1/16/2009

iPhone App Store Hits 500 Million Downloads, We Break Down the Numbers [IPhone Apps]

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So the App Store has hit half a billion downloads in a mere 6 months. Impressive! But how do these numbers break down by app? We made a handy pie chart to show you.

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iphone.pankaku.com - 1/20/2009

Pankaku iPhone Applications » Home

— iphone.pankaku.com — LIST OF IPHONE APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE NOW >>See applications at iTunes App Store LIGHTBIKE PASY SERIES PASY (PAnkaku... SYnthesizer) series are sound applications for iPhone / iPod touch. SP-DRUM SERIES Touch the screen and drag your finger as you like.  ... (more) Pankaku iPhone Applications » Home

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businessweek.com - 1/19/2009

App Store Hits 500 Million Downloads

— businessweek.com — 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 ... (more) App Store Hits 500 Million Downloads

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venturebeat.com - 1/20/2009

Just in time for the Obama inauguration, Ustream’s iPhone app launches

— venturebeat.com — 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 ... (more) Just in time for the Obama inauguration, Ustream’s ...

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App Store hits 15,000 apps, 500 Million Downloads, Giz breaks them down.
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The Week in iPhone Apps: And We Have Reached A New Low [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo — ... anything novel with the new browser rules. $2 This Week's App News on Giz: • iFight for iPhone Kicks Ass, Literally • Chipotle's Mobile Ordering App For Magic iPhone Burritos • Beijing Man Shows Why Certain iPhone Games Shouldn't be Played on the Subway • Apple Approves New Browsers in App Store, As Long As They're Based On Safari • Novelist Censors Own Book To Sell As iPhone App • iPhone App Store Hits 500 Million Downloads, We Break Down the Numbers • Cat ...

Linkpost | 1.17.2009
TechBlog — ... - Gizmodo's Brian Lam feels bad about having to write about Steve Jobs' health problems . . . and curses a lot in the process. He feels bad about that, too. • iPhone App Store Hits 500 Million Downloads, We Break Down the Numbers • ...

Apple’s App Store: Has it peaked?
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 — ... Of course, none of these numbers will mean anything if the fad passes and users decide most of those apps aren’t worth the cost and trouble. Gizmodo suggested as much last week with the mock pie-chart, reposted at right, in which they purport to break down Apple’s 15,000-plus iPhone apps into eight categories (23% Flashlights, 21% To Do Lists, 11% Fart Apps, etc.). ...

Is There Life After iPhone?
Apple Watch — ... , which essentially are Mobile widgets. Nokia launched the service about two years earlier. While by no means App Store, Widsets provide just enough mobile widgets to meet my information consumption and interaction needs. After all, Apple may claim more than 500 million App Store downloads, but how many are really useful? Gizmodo has a colorful breakdown of the applications . The iPhone 3G-to-Nokia N-series exodus is now a family affair. For about six weeks before Christmas, my daughter asked to swap out her iPhone 3G for an iPod Touch and regular cell phone. By regular, she ...

Apple Can't Stand the Sight of Boobs or Booty [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo — ... is one of those 99-cent iPhone apps: You shake your iPhone, and boobs or any other salacious body part will jiggle. Totally approved for the App Store. But Apple doesn't like boobs. Or booty. ...

How to Find Awesome iPhone Apps [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo — ... TheAppleBlog lays out four different sites that make it way easier to find the quality app gems that are wallowing, helplessly, in the toxic cesspool of utter crap that makes up most of the App Store. ...

The Life of an iPhone App: Nasty, Brutish and Short [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo — Our breakdown of the 500 million apps populating the App Store was correcto: A study by Pinch Media shows only 20 percent of people use free apps again after the first day they download it. After a month, the rate falls off to about less than 5 percent. Paid apps fare a little better, but not a whole lot, as you can see. It's pretty remarkable that the average app is so crappy or disposable you only use it for a single day, and within a month, you're almost definitely not using it. The presentation says that long-term users are "generally 1 ...

BlackBerry App World Paid Apps Must Cost at Least $2.99 [Whither The Fart Apps?]
Gizmodo — ... Or maybe this was a conscious decision to filter out the endless $1 flashlights and fart simulators that litter the iTunes App Store. If so, change it. Those thousands of worthless, make-a-buck apps are annoying, yes, but they don't stop others from making, finding or purchasing countless app that, though great and worth something, belong somewhere below $3. [ ...