Why do you need "loyalty" on a mac forum? I like macrumors but I absolutely hate the fact that you need to defend yourself or are seen as a traitor whenever you say anything negative about apple.
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Apple Announces Over 100,000 Apps Available on the App Store
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Why do you need "loyalty" on a mac forum? I like macrumors but I absolutely hate the fact that you need to defend yourself or are seen as a traitor whenever you say anything negative about apple.
That's really good news. Now, If they could just sort the good apps from the bad that would be even better news. 
Neither one of you even understood my post. I have no issues with people complaining about Apple or saying something negative, if I did I certainly wouldn't have registered on this forum since this place is the king of Apple bashing.
My issue is when posters come on a Mac forum and say things like "ONE UP FOR MS, SCREW APPLE". At that point why even come to a Mac/Apple forum at all? Seems like more hatred for Apple and hopes for Apple to fail.
Its a shame that a bulk of those apps are trash. Again its been brought up before most of the major apps in the app store are available for the other guys too. I don't like using App store numbers as a selling point. The App store has turned into a swap meet.
And I guess the other app stores aren't full of junk, I mean having access to apps that the other markets don't have is a bad thing and the prices also being cheaper is also a bad thing.
I would agree with that but the post you reacted to was not doing that at all, simply pointing out the irony and selective memory in apple's advertising
Alright, fair enough. However I would still like that poster or anyone else to point me to where Apple was bashing MS for having too many apps written for Windows? That would make no sense to bash MS for Windows having too many apps unless there was more to that story.
so now that Jobs said they're going to allow in app purchases inside apps that were originally free mean all the "lite"or free versions are gonna be gone?
and wouldn't that bring the total apps down?
I'm just mad jobs originally said 75% of apps are going to be free, but in reality, it's only 25% free..
and 90% of the 2 billion app downloads have been free apps..
And I guess the other app stores aren't full of junk, I mean having access to apps that the other markets don't have is a bad thing and the prices also being cheaper is also a bad thing.
Its also not there number one selling point and plastered like propaganda everywhere.
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You sir, are so right. I can't stand trying to look at hundreds of apps and they all have one star. I wish Apple could create some sort of new way to look at apps. Besides that, congrats to Apple. Finally, when the smart phone industry is making their phones, they will have to look at Apples success and techniques forcing them to think of how they can make something better. Now, if the carriers can keep up with the bandwidth that these phones require....... that is another story. I doubt we will see them do that until "OMGZ BUY 1 GET 1 FREE... PLX SIGN 2 YR CONTRACT"
You sir, are so right. I can't stand trying to look at hundreds of apps and they all have one star. I wish Apple could create some sort of new way to look at apps. Besides that, congrats to Apple. Finally, when the smart phone industry is making their phones, they will have to look at Apples success and techniques forcing them to think of how they can make something better. Now, if the carriers can keep up with the bandwidth that these phones require....... that is another story. I doubt we will see them do that until "OMGZ BUY 1 GET 1 FREE... PLX SIGN 2 YR CONTRACT"
If your platform is to succeed, it has to have a robust app store. Then it's a real platform.
The competition cared enough to bring out their own app stores after Apple debuted their own. The consumers cared to download 2 billion apps. The developers cared to develop 100 000 apps. The tiny minority of you who don't care as so minute that you are irrelevant.
Maybe because Apple's app store is bigger, who's gonna listen to them trump anything that is smaller than Apple's offering.
and i would say about 85% of them fall in the novelty/useful for a day/fun to try out deals. I mean, its great a tennis tournament has an App, but what about the other 50 weeks of the year? my usage continues to remain in the core four (email/text/phone/calendar) with a few well designed games that keep my attention.
Unless they are all QUALITY, this is not impressive and only goes towards showing the lack of good quality control and asinine Resistance on pointless restrictions. Since we know how many crappy pointless apps Apple has let through, it's far easier to get a pointless trash-app into the store than it is to get a genuinely useful app (like google voice or flash)
I had to laugh at that. What happened to apple could stop developing their OS for ten years and still be ahead of mircosoft? i guess Snow leopard happened.
Apple should make flash through the Apple store just so they can advertise that They've got 10 billion downloaded apps!