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App Store Hits 15,000 Apps, 500 Million Downloads
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I second that
I second that...and add Slingbox, Skype, and Push Notifications to the list.
Yep. And the only two applications that everyone wants netshare and tomtom aren't on there......
I second that...and add Slingbox, Skype, and Push Notifications to the list.
is there an emulator to play the apps on the computer?
THAT would be a great idea and open up a much larger market.
THAT would be a great idea and open up a much larger market.
They have a simulator that comes with the development software. But as soon as you get an app that requires the phone, core location, the accelerometer, or multi-touch then you're SOL.
Besides, all the other apps could probably be ported to the Mac pretty easily so...
Cool, but i hope this relaxing of rules they recently have going continues if they want this type of press to continue coming out of the mill.
I would love to know how many app applications they have received versus the number of apps currently available in App Store.
What Apple will do is release the "iTablet" and they'll work with that. Millions of people will buy it so their games, 'net and other stuff look really good on an 8" screen. Me. First in line. You don't make it compatible with something that people already have. You give me something they're willing to shell out another $400-500 on!Don't Panic said:
So with 15,000 apps, how on earth do good ones get found? It seems like there must be hundreds or thousands of apps with next to no downloads, and some of those are probably great.
It seems kind of like music, where being known is just so enormously helpful, because you can't expect people to find you just because you exist.
It seems kind of like music, where being known is just so enormously helpful, because you can't expect people to find you just because you exist.
Yep. And the only two applications that everyone wants netshare and tomtom aren't on there......
Yeah, because you want them, everyone wants the only two killer apps on the iPhone.
The search field like everyone else does on Earth to find something they need.
this makes sense: all my friends (but me) have ipod touches with over 100 apps and they all are playing tap tap revenge in homeroom.
Eventually, the same way you find stuff on the web (out of the gazzillions of pages out there). Quality search engines, and trusted blogs, ezines, review sites, etc.
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macbooks have accelerometers to stop the disks when you drop it. they also have multitouch and the home button can be assigned with the new trackpads! this could work!
Damn, so 15,000 apps and you can't send or receive mss messages or record video with any of them?
I was wondering the same thing. Of course when it's good news, no one here questions the source or details.
Inflated number of apps. The App store needs a trial function. I'd say of the free apps 1/3 - 1/2 are lite apps.
You have to go to other websites to get links because unless you know the exact name of what you're looking for the search function either overloads or undercuts the results.
You have to go to other websites to get links because unless you know the exact name of what you're looking for the search function either overloads or undercuts the results.
Great but unfortunately 98% of those apps are total crap making it very hard to find the great apps that I would love to use. The iTunes Store makes it way too easy for some random geek to publish some utter crap app in hopes of making some ridiculous amount of money (which he / she won't if the app is like the majority of the apps are). I think the ease of submitting the apps to the Store is turning against itself making it harder and harder to find the good ones. The dev policy rejects the apps that would truly be useful and allows the crap that no one needs to enter the store. Honestly, there are around two hundred new apps submitted every day and only very very few of them have any real use.
