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I hate 13-year olds
Macenstein —
I hate 13-year olds God, I am so pissed at 13 year old Connor Muicahey of Weston, Connecticut who stole my Billion iPhone app prize . That’s right, a 13-year old won my $10,000 iTunes card, my Time Capsule, my 32 GB iPod touch, AND my 17″ MacBook Pro. Wouldn’t YOU be pissed if someone did that to you? I mean, it’s almost like the kid broke into my house. Why didn’t he take my TV while he was at it? Man. And what’s even worse is that the Mac media seems to love it. “Oh, how cute! A 13- year old boy won all that stuff! That’s great!” Yeah, well, you know what ...
The Palm Pre: Hope or Hype?
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... … finally. But even if Palm has enough mojo to make Apple reconsider, or rethink their software/hardware releases, there’s one thing Palm simply won’t be able to compete with. A little neighborhood shop they call the App Store, which just demolished the 1 billion downloads milestone. ...
Palm's Pre Is Winning Rave Reviews. But Apple Is About To Extend Its Most Important Advantage: Apps
Byte of the Apple - BusinessWeek —
... in the months ahead. For starters, there's little evidence that any of the new App Store openings from these companies has slowed the meteoric growth of Apple's App Store in recent weeks. Who knows what numbers Apple will announce at its Worldwide Developers Conference next week? Last time it released new data a few months ago, the company said that 35,000 programs had been downloaded more than one billion times. Anyone want to take a guess at the new numbers, come Monday? How about 50,000 and 1.2 billion? ...
Palm's Pre Is Winning Rave Reviews. But Apple Is About To Extend Its Most Important Advantage: Apps
MacBytes.com —
... in the months ahead. For starters, there’s little evidence that any of the new App Store openings from these companies has slowed the meteoric growth of Apple’s App Store in recent weeks. Who knows what numbers Apple will announce at its Worldwide Developers Conference next week? Last time it released new data a few months ago, the company said that 35,000 programs had been downloaded more than one billion times. Anyone want to take a guess at the new numbers, come Monday? How about 50,000 and 1.2 billion? More important, I think this up-and-to-the-right trend line is going ...
Apple sells 1.5B apps in App Store's first year
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... iPod touch applications during the App Store's first year of existence.
Despite the slow economy, App Store sales appear to have accelerated since last year, showing a fairly positive polynomial trend. Apple is selling apps roughly five times faster than it did when the store opened.
The App Store now features 65,000 apps available to users in 77 countries. The iPhone Developer Program includes 100,000 members, too.
(Chart sources: 1, 2, 3, 4.) TUAWApple sells 1.5B apps in App Store's first year ...
Apple: 1.5 Billion iPhone Apps Downloaded
Byte of the Apple - BusinessWeek —
... The new milestone is 1.5 billion apps downloaded. That's an improvement of 500 million since it hit the 1 billion-download mark on April 24, and it works out to a daily run rate of 6,173,000 million apps downloaded per day. ...
iPhone apps top 2 billion sold, 85,000 available
iPhone J.D. —
... opens
7/14/08: 10 million apps sold; 800 apps available (Apple PR)
9/9/08: 100 million apps sold; 3,000 apps available. (Apple PR)
10/22/08: 200 million apps sold; 5,550 apps available (Macworld)
12/5/08: 300 million apps sold; 10,000 apps available (iPhone J.D.)
1/16/09: 500 million apps sold; 15,000 apps available (iPhone J.D.)
4/24/09: 1 billion apps sold; 35,000 apps available (Apple PR)
7/14/09: 1.5 billion apps sold; 65,000 apps available (Apple PR) ...
100,000 apps available
iPhone J.D. —
... 9/9/08: 100 million apps sold; 3,000 apps available. (Apple PR)
10/22/08: 200 million apps sold; 5,550 apps available (Macworld)
12/5/08: 300 million apps sold; 10,000 apps available (iPhone J.D.)
1/16/09: 500 million apps sold; 15,000 apps available (iPhone J.D.)
3/17/09: 800 million apps sold; 25,000 apps available (Macworld)
4/24/09: 1 billion apps sold; 35,000 apps available (Apple PR)
7/14/09: 1.5 billion apps sold; 65,000 apps available (Apple PR) ...
