Apple Advertises 300 Million Apps Downloaded, Over 10,000 Apps

[MacRumors]

O2 ad posted to Flickr
Both Apple and O2 have started advertising the App Store in print media today. O2 posted a copy of this ad which appears in The Metro. Meanwhile, Macworld reports that Apple has placed ads in The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

In the U.S. print ads (not pictured), Apple reports that 300 million apps have been downloaded and confirms that the App Store now carries over 10,000 applications. The App Store crossed over the 10,000 app point on Wednesday and the current App count is 10,353 apps according to AppShopper.

Apple last reported that they had exceeded 200 million App Store downloads in late October.

Article Link: Apple Advertises 300 Million Apps Downloaded, Over 10,000 Apps

[boss1]

Kudos to . I still however would like to see more apps that have effective desktop counterparts that sync. And when is Apple going to fulfill it's promise to allow iPhone apps to process badges in the background for alarms and such?

[hiabowman]

O2 also just started selling the iPhone 3G without a contract on Pay As You Go in the UK (http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/hom...mco=Mjg4NzQ3Mw), pricing doesn't seem all that bad either.

[djellison]

Originally Posted by hiabowman

O2 also just started selling the iPhone 3G without a contract on Pay As You Go in the UK (http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/hom...mco=Mjg4NzQ3Mw), pricing doesn't seem all that bad either.

Are you f'ing kidding me? £342 for a PAYG phone, £100 more than ANY other O2 PAYG phone. £100 MORE for a phone with a crap camera that can't even record videos?

"This changed everything"

Yeah - it redefines the price ceiling of PAYG phones.

Doug

[talkingfuture]

Originally Posted by djellison

Are you f'ing kidding me? £342 for a PAYG phone, £100 more than ANY other O2 PAYG phone. £100 MORE for a phone with a crap camera that can't even record videos?

"This changed everything"

Yeah - it redefines the price ceiling of PAYG phones.

Doug

I was saying just this afternoon that a PAYG iPhone perhaps the 8GB version would be ok at £250, its just too expensive now.

[LukeHarrison]

Originally Posted by djellison

Are you f'ing kidding me? £342 for a PAYG phone, £100 more than ANY other O2 PAYG phone. £100 MORE for a phone with a crap camera that can't even record videos?

"This changed everything"

Yeah - it redefines the price ceiling of PAYG phones.

Doug

Yes, but remember that comes with a years unlimited data and Wi-Fi, which from O2 would cost £120 anyway.

[mogzieee]

I saw that 02 ad in a newspaper about 2 weeks ago now.

[fendol]

Exact numbers are not really significant just the 10k mark is amazing.

And 300 million of those downloaded, quite the feat I'd say. I wonder if there's a way to know the free ones from the paid ones

[rockdog]

http://www.electronista.com/articles...mer.on.iphone/

He also suggested that Apple might be creating too narrow a focus by stressing media playback on the iPhone instead of the possibilities of a general operating system such as Windows Mobile. The heavily-rumored Zune phone was again dismissed as impossible and against the company's mobile product philosophy.

"We wouldn't define our phone experience just by music. A phone is really a general purpose device," he summarized. "You want to make telephone calls, you want to get and receive messages, text, e-mail, whatever your preference is." - Steve Ballmer

It never ceases to amaze me how someone who lacks any imagination could make it so high in the corporate world.

[kas23]

Originally Posted by rockdog

"We wouldn't define our phone experience just by music. A phone is really a general purpose device," he summarized. "You want to make telephone calls, you want to get and receive messages, text, e-mail, whatever your preference is." - Steve Ballmer

Yeah, that a really stupid thing to say. As much as I get frustrated with my iPhone sometimes, it is hardly just a "music" phone. Then again, it would be cool if they made an iWork Mobile for it. I think this would give it just one more dimension.

[JGowan]

Originally Posted by rockdog

It never ceases to amaze me how someone who lacks any imagination could make it so high in the corporate world.

Ballmer was Bill Gates' college buddy, has surfed his coat tails for decades and probably knows where quite a few bodies are buried. That's how.

[OllyW]

Originally Posted by djellison

Are you f'ing kidding me? £342 for a PAYG phone, £100 more than ANY other O2 PAYG phone. £100 MORE for a phone with a crap camera that can't even record videos?

"This changed everything"

Yeah - it redefines the price ceiling of PAYG phones.

Doug

To be fair, O2 don't have any other top of the range phones available on PAYG and you do get the data plan included for the first 12 months.

The only other UK mobile operator selling premium phones on PAYG is 3 who have got the N96 available for £460

[iPhelim]

Yes. The O2 ads have been showing across many newspapers for the last week.

[alexbates]

300 million...wow!

I wonder which application (probably for the Mac instead of iPhone) has had the most downloads out of the 300 million?

[hiabowman]

Originally Posted by djellison

Are you f'ing kidding me? £342 for a PAYG phone, £100 more than ANY other O2 PAYG phone. £100 MORE for a phone with a crap camera that can't even record videos?

"This changed everything"

Yeah - it redefines the price ceiling of PAYG phones.

Doug

No I am not kidding, remember how much the first gen was even with a contract. I agree it's still pricy but i don't think it's THAT bad, 12 months unlimited data with a phone that is meant for it. If you want it as an internet device and only make use of the phone part every so often (as i suspect many iPhone users do), it is not that bad, especially compared to say a netbook. As for the £100 more than any other phone, the software alone puts this well ahead any other phone i know of (yes that includes the G1, for now at least).

[iSlave]

Originally Posted by djellison

Are you f'ing kidding me? £342 for a PAYG phone, £100 more than ANY other O2 PAYG phone. £100 MORE for a phone with a crap camera that can't even record videos?

"This changed everything"

Yeah - it redefines the price ceiling of PAYG phones.

Doug

Try looking at the PAYG Nokia N96 price.....

[Ted13]

This is why the iPhone is going to be, very, very hard to catch. Even if a competitor comes up with a comparable SDK/API it is likely that developers will have to write/test for many, sometimes radically different phones (e.g. Android).

And the more the iPhone App ecosystem succeeds, the more mindshare it will attract.

[talkingfuture]

Those are incredible numbers. Shows what a brilliant yet simple idea the App store is.

[XxHOVESKOxX]

WOW!
That's a lot of apps

Good Job

[ArtOfWarfare]

So tempting to rush my app and put it in the store already...

patience... is so hard... watching others make money with their garbage... must remember that quality will inevitably conquer quantity at the end.

[kas23]

Originally Posted by MacRumors;6716745... the current App count is [url="http://appshopper.com"

10,353 apps[/url] according to AppShopper.

I wonder how this is calculated. About 5 days ago, we first heard that Apple hit the 10K mark (but was actually at the 9,700 mark or whatever). Now we're at 10.3K? I follow appshopper like a religious freak and I know that they have not added about 500 new (never before available) apps in the last few days. Are they counting updates to apps as "new" apps? I could definitively believe that.

[Diode]

Apple would be a good stock to buy now ....

[OddyOh]

Originally Posted by kas23

Are they counting updates to apps as "new" apps? I could definitively believe that.

That's a really good point/question. I'd hope there's a way they can tell the difference. Also apps that switch from free to pay to free again, and maybe name changes.

[arn]

Originally Posted by kas23

I wonder how this is calculated. About 5 days ago, we first heard that Apple hit the 10K mark (but was actually at the 9,700 mark or whatever). Now we're at 10.3K? I follow appshopper like a religious freak and I know that they have not added about 500 new (never before available) apps in the last few days. Are they counting updates to apps as "new" apps? I could definitively believe that.

Yep, 500+ new apps in that timeframe. You can could going back and look (http://appshopper.com/new), but it only goes back 20 pages (20 apps per page so 400 apps). Updates and price changes are not counted as new apps.

On page 20: http://appshopper.com/new/20 - apps that were introduced 2 days ago. So 400+ new apps in the past 2 days.

arn

[mainstreetmark]

Originally Posted by arn

On page 20: http://appshopper.com/new/20 - apps that were introduced 2 days ago. So 400 apps in the past 2 days.

arn

Well, hopefully one of them will finally knock iBeer out of the top ten. It's time for that one to fade away, especially since he managed to get better apps removed from the (US) store (talking about iPint)