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Massive Christmas iPod Touch sales boost App Store downloads
TG Daily - All News —
... Business and Law By MacRumors Monday, December 29, 2008 10:25 Apple's new iPod Touch appears to have been a huge hit this holiday season with evidence that the high end iPod has seen massive gains in marketshare. Read the complete story here. ...
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TechBlog —
... - Thin, cheap and underpowered? Or thin, not so cheap and ready to rock? • Massive Christmas iPod Touch Sales Boost App Store Downloads - The more expensive iPod was a major hit this season. • ...
Apple: iPhone Authors Report Sales Surge on Christmas
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily —
... ) last, it has announced — brings exciting new gadgets, the new year could see some rising numbers for sales of the company’s iPhone and its attendant software programs. Several authors of top-selling programs for the iPhone, distributed through Apple’s online “App Store,” report a surge in sales of their programs on Christmas day last week. To take just one example, the author of the current top-selling application for the iPhone, iFart (yes, it’s a version of the classic fart-machine sound effects box for the iPhone) ...
IPod Touch Was This Year's Favorite Stocking Filler
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... netted its developer $25,000 on Christmas Day alone, and other developers report similar numbers.
That's great news all round, but the real eye-opener is that, whereas before everybody carried a music player in their pocket, soon everyone will have a computer in their pockets. Apple might just have reinvented the UMPC without anybody noticing.
App Developers See 2-4x Sales Boost on Christmas [148 Apps. Thanks, Johnny CA!]
Graph [Market Share via Mac Rumors]
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Another break for e-books: Big spike in iPod Touch sales
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
“The massive boost in App Store sales appears to be from a large influx of iPod Touch users. Amazon lists the 8GB and 16GB iPod Touch as the best selling MP3 players despite their relatively higher cost.” - MacRumors.com item.
The TeleRead take: Another obvious positive for e-books. The more iPod Touches out there, the more potential homes for copies of Stanza, eReader and the rest.
Related: Techmeme roundup.
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News: iPod touch drives holiday app sales, traffic
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
Strong holiday sales of the iPod touch drove growth in App sales and web traffic on Christmas day, according to a new report. Mac Rumors, citing information from several developers, reports that sales of both Top 100 and other titles were boosted by 3x-4x on Christmas day, attributing the growth to the iPod touch based on Amazon.com’s sales reports and rankings, which show the iPod touch ...
Apple’s App Store sees big iPod Touch downloads this Christmas
CrunchGear —
... The boost in sales "appears to be from a large influx of iPod Touch users," according to MacRumors.com, who noted that it would have been much easier to give an iPod Touch as a Christmas gift versus an iPhone, which would have to be activated and whatnot. ...
iPod touch is Apple’s Christmas winner; AppStore sales up 4x
SlashGear —
... dramatically over Christmas, with some publishers reporting sales increases of as much as 3x and 4x. The downloads were predominantly from the US and Canada.
The news has been explained by some as a result of the iPod touch being more readily “gifted” compared to the iPhone 3G. The former can simply be bought, whereas the latter requires a contract (at least outside of regions such as the UK where pre-pay iPhone 3G’s are available).
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…And an iPod Touch or Three
Zatz Not Funny! —
... this season, and a huge jump in App Store purchases proves the new gifts were put to good use. Why the mainstream popularity? Aside from the obvious portable music/video access, I have a theory that a lot of adults who used to steal their kids’ Gameboys to play Tetris are discovering the iPod as an “adult” portable gaming machine. Wurdle, anyone? ...
Huge iPod Touch Sales Over Christmas Brings App Store Surge
Touch Arcade —
... As MacRumors reports, it appears that Apple’s high-end iPod, the iPod touch, has experienced a huge gain in marketshare this holiday season, based on sales numbers seen in the iTunes App Store. ...
Apple iPod Touch A Big Christmas Winner (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... the iPod touch's Web browser market share soared on Christmas day to 0.21%, up fourfold from its mid-December share around 0.05%. It's staying up since then, too -- 0.16% on Dec. 26, 27, and 28. (See chart below, via MacRumors.) ...
Daily Tech: The Hottest iPhone Apps of 2008
GeekSugar —
... full list to find out. — Gizmodo
Did you know that your phone carrier is ripping you off when you send text messages? — Switched
You can pick up an iPhone 3G for $99 these days. It'll just be refurbished and from AT&T. — Engadget
The latest firmware download for the BlackBerry Storm has been leaked, and it actually fixes some bugs. — CrunchGear
On Christmas day alone, Apple's App Store saw a tripling of sales, with game developers cashing in. — MacRumors ...
Apple’s iPod touch a big winner this Christmas
MacDailyNews —
... App Store application (iFart Mobile) saw a tripling of sales from 13,000 units a day to almost 39,000 units on Christmas day. This growth in sales, however, was not just isolated to the #1 spot and was seen across the entire App Store. Several game developers on TouchArcade.com reported sales boosts of 3x-4x across all titles, even for titles not in the top 100 listings... Hit Tennis developer Mark Johnson reported a 4x sales increase on Christmas for his tennis game." Full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "James W." for the heads up.] ...
Christmas iPod touch and iPhone gifts boost App Store volume
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... Hello and welcome once again to The Obvious News. Our top story today: the sky remains blue, and we'll have a full report by our man on the scene Chip Thompson about that later. But first, this: apparently App Store downloads are up thanks to large holiday sales of the iPhone and iPod touch. This comes as a shock to absolutely no one, but reports are coming in from developers, publishers, and browser reports and search terms alike that App Store downloads and interest have ...
iPod touch Explodes All Over Christmas
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
... player, but also as a gaming console, has seemed to have paid off. Gaming developers, like "Hit Tennis" developer Mark Johnson, saw an almost four-fold increase in daily application sales on Christmas day compared to other days in December. This doesn't just go for games, but across all apps in the App Store. iTunes Connect launched after Christmas, allowing iPhone developers to check their sales stats, and needless to say, many were pleasantly surprised with their findings. Via MacRumors ...
iPod Touch Giving Mobile Web a Boost [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... The strong sales (as indicated by sudden spike after Christmas) of iPod Touch would make this device a bit of an x-factor in the smartphone business. Today, Apple may not be able to sell as many smart phones as RIM or Nokia, it can still offer its app developers a bigger pool of users, thanks to the iPhone. In doing so, it keeps the iTunes App Store relevant attracting more applications. It was earlier reported that sales of apps jumped right after the Christmas. ...
Apple: 500 Million iPhone Apps Downloaded
Mashable! —
... , this represents accelerating growth for app downloads, as it took 6 weeks for the download count to move from 200 to 300 million. Holiday sales of iPhone and the iPod Touch are likely responsible for a significant part of the surge – many developers reported 3-4x bumps in downloads on Christmas Day. ...
