businessinsider.com - 5/15/2009
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Apple's (AAPL) iPhone App Store is a huge success, with more than 1 billion apps downloaded so far and thousands of developers in the program. (Including many important companies that never bothered to do anything good for the Mac.) But how much money is Apple making from all those app ...
wired.com - 5/19/2009
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Despite Apple’s reputation for being a notorious gatekeeper
with its iPhone App Store, there’s a way to...
sneak in content such as porn, profanity or potentially malicious code, with no hacking required: Easter eggs. Apple initially ...
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Want to Fool Apple’s App Store? Plant an Easter Egg
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About Those iPhone App Store Revenue Numbers
TechCrunch —
... Apple is a company notoriously mindful of its high margins, so why doesn’t it care about making a lot of money with the App Store? Dan Frommer of Silicon Alley Insider has this exactly right: it’s because the App Store is one of the, if not the, key driver of two products that are very high margin: The iPhone and the iPod touch. The App Store is based around the exact same model as its parent iTunes Store, which sells music at a very small markup in order to sell iPods. I don’t think I have to explain how well that has worked. ...
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Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 1.5 Billion in First Year
apple.com 7/14/2009 — s App Store Downloads Top 1.5 Billion in First Year More Than 65,000 Apps; Over 100,000 Developers CUPERTINO, California July 14, 2009 Apple today announced that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from its ...
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The iPhone's App Store is becoming an increasingly juicy target for pirates, who have illegally cracked 24 percent of paid applications for free distribution.
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Just prior to iPhone 3.0 there were rumors that Apple would introduce a Premium App Store which would let high quality apps in the $10 or $20+ range enjoy some breathing room away from the “race to the bottom” pressure of the current ...
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