businessweek.com - 2/2/2009
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Late last year, Pelago Inc. founder Jeff Holden crunched the numbers and came to a shocking conclusion: that the 13 million owners of iPhone owners had already downloaded as much software as—are you sitting down—1.1 billion other cell-phone owners. "Why would I ever build for anything but ...
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Apple doesn’t want you to find quality apps
in the App Store. Yes, I said it. The...
way the App Store is currently designed, Apple would rather you spend your valuable time discovering apps either by going category by category or making ...
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App Store Organization: One Problem, Four Current Solutions
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iPhone Users Far More Likely to Download Games than Other Handset Owners
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... CEO Jeff Holden determined that the current base of 13 million iPhone owners had already downloaded as much software as the equivalent of 1.1 billion owners of other mobile phones. ...
Fortune: Nearly 25% of App Store Is Games
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... More surprising, however is just how the iPhone is dominating games today and into the future. The iPhone’s more than 17 million owners are equal to 1.6 billion regular cell phone users when it comes to downloading applications, Pelago CEO Jeff Holden discovered. ...
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