medialets.com - 10/23/2008
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Google’s Android Market has been officially live for 24 hours. Here are some early observations and comparisons with the iPhone App Store’s first 24 hours. There are myriad similarities between iPhone and Android users: During the first 24 hours of Android Market, 62 apps were available to ...
macrumors.com - 10/23/2008
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macrumors.com —
During the conference call yesterday, Steve Jobs revealed
that the 200 millionth application would be downloaded from...
the App Store sometime today. Apple previously revealed that the App Store had delivered over 100 million application...
(more)
App Store Reaches 200 Million Downloads
macrumors.com - 10/31/2008
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macrumors.com —
The NY Times profiles Opera Software, the company
that distributes the Opera browser for multiple platforms. According...
to the article, however, Apple is not allowing an iPhone version of the browser into the App Store: Mr. von Tetzc...
(more)
Opera Browser Not Allowed in iPhone App Store
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Breaking Down the First 24 Hours of the Android Marketplace and the iPhone App Store [Google Android]
Gizmodo —
... it does provide some insight into the similarities between iPhone and G1 users. Basically, it illustrates that both parties are interested in the same sorts of apps, given the fact that the distributions are fairly similar. One could draw the conclusion that Android users are more into lifestyle and productivity-based functionality, but without detailed information comparing the number of these apps released by both platforms at launch, this assessment is probably a bit premature. [Medialets] ...
The First 24 Hours: Android Market vs. App Store
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... The kind folks at Medialets have provided a multitude of observations and comparisons between the opening days of Apple’s App Store and the Android Market. They report three major similarities between users of both platforms, including: ...
Android users favoring apps over games
Macworld —
... system and associated applications have been anticipated as possibly the next phenomenon to shake up the mobile industry following Apple's iPhone and App Store. By late Friday, games were taking a back seat to applications in the Android Market, based on broad ranges of download numbers displayed on the store. It showed that 20 applications had been downloaded between 10,000 and 50,000 times, compared with just five games in that class. On Thursday, mobile research firm Medialets reported there were six applications and three games with that many downloads. Analyzing a ...
Android users favoring apps over games
MacBytes.com —
... operating system and associated applications have been anticipated as possibly the next phenomenon to shake up the mobile industry following Apple's iPhone and App Store. By late Friday, games were taking a back seat to applications in the Android Market, based on broad ranges of download numbers displayed on the store. It showed that 20 applications had been downloaded between 10,000 and 50,000 times, compared with just five games in that class. On Thursday, mobile research firm Medialets reported there were six applications and three games with that many downloads. ...
After one day: Android Market v. The App Store
iSmashPhone —
... [Source: Medialets]
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