macrumors.com - 1/23/2009
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A banner on Apple's front page proclaims that the App Store has surpassed 15,000 available applications and 500 million downloads. The milestones come just over six months after the App Store's debut.
Apple last reported on De...
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apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com - 1/19/2009
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500 million apps 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 ...
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Apple’s App Store: Has it peaked? No!
appleinsider.com - 1/23/2009
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A software engineer who wrote what he calls
a "terrible" and "crap" app in less time than...
it typically takes to eat lunch has since watched it shoot to the top of Apple's App Store, where it's now generating over $200 an hour ...
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iPhone developer: App Store rewards "crap" apps
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App-ulation Explosion: iPhone App Store Posts Huger-Than-Huge Stats
iSmashPhone —
... thought that, even as we speak, SOMEONE at the House of Jobs is doing an impersonation of Dr. Evil, pinkie to the mouth and all, crowing "Half a BEEEELLION downloads! Mwuhahahahaha!!!" Seriously, it was a mere six weeks ago that Apple bragged of 10,000 apps and 300 million downloads. This, folks, is the textbook definition of "exponential growth." The Palms and Blackberries and Androids and WinMobiles of the world have a hell of a lot of catching up to do. [Via MacRumors]
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