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10,000 iPhone Apps
TechCrunch — ... A tribute page shows a mini icon for every application. And it also gives some interesting data. About 24% of apps are free; 35% cost $.99. The average cost is $3.12, including free apps. About 34% are games or entertainment, and there are 49 weather related apps for the iPhone. ...

The App Store hits a milestone: 10,000 apps
The Apple Core — ... that were available when the App Store launched in June 2008. In an impressive piece of coding, 148 Apps created a labor-intensive tribute page that shows the icon of every application available in the store. Although the collage is one large image, every icon is clickable courtesy of an invisible imagemap. (I hope that they automated it!) The ...

App Store nears 10,000 offerings: now what?
Ars Technica - Infinite Loop — ... App Store hit first 1,728 and then 20,736 items. Being two digits short, 10,000 seems nicely round with a surfeit of zeros. This weekend, App Store hit that magic number. Or it would have hit 10,000, were it not for several hundred programs that have been withdrawn from sale for a variety of reasons ranging from lawsuits to technological issues to a loss of interest. After all is said and done, though, approximately 10,000 apps (more or less) have made it through Apple review and are available for download for iPhone and iPod touch owners. Those nearly-10,000 applications ...

iPhone Poster Celebrates 10,000 Apps in the App Store
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... Apple's App Store exceed 10,000 applications last week -- a significant achievement, seeing as the store launched in July with about 500 apps available. 148Apps, a site that reviews and tracks new iPhone apps, announced the number and made a tribute page displaying miniature icons of each of the 10,215 apps available.  ...

iPhone as gaming console: Whee! Wii! Whee!
Ars Technica - Infinite Loop — ... . What we do know is that the iPhone continues to grow as a portable gaming device and that games continue to dominate App Store sales . So long as there are waiting rooms and lines to stand on, there will be games on phones. The iPhone SDK continues to make it easier to offer better, more compelling games to casual users. With Apple's new emphasis on thinking of the iPhone as a console, we may yet see those games expand, grow and move into the living room.

Fortune: Nearly 25% of App Store Is Games
Cult of Mac — ... Confirmation came Tuesday from Fortune on just how popular games are to iPhone users. Games comprise about 21 percent of the almost 19,000 applications from Apple’s App Store. “Six out of the top 10 paid apps on Apple’s App Store are currently games or entertainment programs,” Fortune’s Philip Elmer-Dewitt wrote. The nugget of information comes from 148Apps, a site that tracks applications offered to iPhone and touch owners. The report echos ComScore, which recently announced iPhone users outpace every other ...

Early iPhone developers may be served walking papers
AppleInsider — ... immediately evident, but the March deadline is Apple's first definitive test of its ability to maintain long-term development relationships with those writing apps for the iPhone and iPod touch. A failure to update contracts for those developers willing to stay onboard would come right as Apple has achieved symbolic milestones for its now successful portal for third-party apps. Beyond the one-year birthday of the iPhone SDK, the iPhone maker has just in the past day surpassed the 25,000 app mark , according to unofficial tracker 148Apps . Apple is still expected to follow ...

Apple Reaches 25K Apps, Games Lead The Way
iPhone Savior — ... The number of apps being added to Apple's wildly popular iTunes App Store by ambitious developers has continued to accelerate at a rapid pace since the end of 2008, recently surging well past 25,000 apps according to the website 148Apps. ...

iPhone beats Windows Mobile to 25,000 applications
Macworld — ... It hardly comes as a surprise that the App Store now plays host to over twenty-five thousand applications, but there’s something about hearing a concrete number that really makes you marvel at just how much of a success the App Store has been, despite having its share of flaws, like the still somewhat arbitrary rejection policies. The figure of 25,000 is from the Web site 148Apps.com , which keeps a running count of all the new applications that are released on the App Store and features a list of the total number to date, broken down by categories. Apple itself hasn’t ...

iPhone App Store: 40,000 and counting
MacBytes.com — ... and the 10,000 Apps celebration page that was, until now, the definitive source for up-to-date App Store counts. 148Apps.biz (named for the maximum number of applications that can be displayed on an iPhone or iPod touch) offers articles and news clippings of interest to commercial developers, but the heart of the site are the stats it gathers automatically from the App Store itself. The bar graph displaying weekly submissions, for example, shows that with a few exceptions (Christmas week being the most obvious), the rate at which new apps are coming in has barely slowed: ...