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Apple Advertises 300 Million Apps Downloaded, Over 10,000 Apps
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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.
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).
I find it sad that I'm only interested in about 30 apps out of those thousands
A lot of crap and duplicates
A lot of crap and duplicates
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I agree. Most of the stuff in the app store is rubbish!!!
But some is amazing!!!
I wish apple would come up with some more apps!
xsecretfiles said:I find it sad that I'm only interested in about 30 apps out of those thousands
A lot of crap and duplicates
I agree. Most of the stuff in the app store is rubbish!!!
But some is amazing!!!
I wish apple would come up with some more apps!
300 million...wow!
I wonder which application (probably for the Mac instead of iPhone) has had the most downloads out of the 300 million?
I wonder which application (probably for the Mac instead of iPhone) has had the most downloads out of the 300 million?
No, just the distribution system.
WinMo alone has about 18,000 apps by official MS count. The Blackberries have over 3,000 on Handango alone. And nope, they're not all flashlights and other crap. If you took away all its duplicated apps, I think the iPhone would be down around 1,500 apps.
When the iPhone has turn-by-turn, Slingplayer, and allows the installation of interpreted code, then it will have hit real smartphone territory.
I think all those who pushed Apple to release an SDK, deserve to brag even more.
But those who said that we should be happy with whatever Apple gave us at the time (e.g. web apps), should be lined up along a wall and shot. (Might as well also line up those who continue to nay-say other things that people want.
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Cool beans. The app store is really coming along.
Yeah, and we've seen nothing so far. Apple has a lot to some relating to the App Store and gaming that we will hopefully see at Macworld.
10,000 is pretty impressive though.
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.
Cool, another site I can spend my whole day on. I love it!
Try this site too. I'm not sure who made it, but it's pretty cool.
www.10000iPhoneApplications.com
That site is pretty cool, but its hard to see the icons. I love the fact that when you click an icon, it takes you to that application in the App Store.
Hey cool! An Apple poster ad that won't (likely) get them sued for false advertising.
I Approve of this Advertisement!
Hey cool! An Apple poster ad that won't (likely) get them sued for false advertising.
I Approve of this Advertisement!
does Anyone know which news papers their from?
300M downloads and 10K apps averages out to mean of 30,000 downloads per app!
Probably a bimodal distribution, with around a million for the free apps and much less than 10k for most paid apps.
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Probably a bimodal distribution, with around a million for the free apps and much less than 10k for most paid apps.
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Yes, but some apps like Crash Bandicoot (paid) have done much better than most of the free apps. I agree that a lot of the free apps would get more downloads, because, if you download one, you are not taking any risk. If you don't like it, you can just delete it without have wasting any money.
It's from the Metro, a free paper given out on buses and trains. I know because I saw the ad on my way to college yesterday morning.