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Apple Celebrates First Anniversary of App Store
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Yes the app store is cool, but no... you don't need any application (or device) to get to the schedule, especially when you are already waiting for the next train I have used BART myself to commute to/from work and there was always a next train like every 15 minutes or so. I mean; things can't have changed that bad in just a few months. Right?
You think so? I'd call that arrogance. Like Phil forgot where Apple was a few years before he joined the company – I can still picture the keynote where turtleneck Steve himself introduced a new partner... being Bill Gates of Microsoft. Oh yeah. Man that was fun.
Apple must have noticed the sheer number of add-ons over at Mozilla.org and also the still increasing number of developers offering free applications for Mozilla (these days simply called Firefox).
Oh and before I forget: Both mozdev.org and mozilla.org will introduce a paid add-on section in the near future.
Do you mean raw profit from the app store or profit from the extra sales garnered from the ability to download applications?
Would not be shocked if there was an order of magnitude difference between these two numbers.
I remember I downloaded my first apps before I had an iPhone, because I just couldn't wait and it made it seem closer. 
Very cool that it's been such a hit.
People talk about the crap apps, and yeah, there's a lot, but there are so many that are really well done, well thought out, and fill a long-standing need or a need I didn't know I had until I saw the app.
Thanks! I hadn't seen it before, and I love the idea. I downloaded it immediately.
That's a perfect example. I didn't like having to look at the screen to skip ahead, but I never thought much about it. Now, I won't have to spend that half-second with my eyes off the road.
Very cool that it's been such a hit.People talk about the crap apps, and yeah, there's a lot, but there are so many that are really well done, well thought out, and fill a long-standing need or a need I didn't know I had until I saw the app.
Thanks! I hadn't seen it before, and I love the idea. I downloaded it immediately.
That's a perfect example. I didn't like having to look at the screen to skip ahead, but I never thought much about it. Now, I won't have to spend that half-second with my eyes off the road.
Not to be picky, but Firefox and Mozilla are (were) actually two different products. What was called simply Mozilla is now Seamonkey (the application suite). Firefox and Thunderbird are based off this (although mostly in terms of using the Gecko rendering engine and XUL for the interface). Both still exist, but in terms of popularity, Firefox is the iPhone of non-IE Web browsers, and Mozilla/Seamonkey is the ... well, Palm is probably still too popular to even say that.
Also, can you provide a link to support your claim that addons.mozilla.org is going to introduce a paid system in the future? Mozdev, I know, has been considering it, but to my knowledge, AMO has no plans to do so, and it would really surprise me if they did.
Arrogance, they are telling the truth or you want them to lie for Palm. If you want to talk arrogance you need to go look at Palm and all the crap they have been spewing about Apple.
Not to be picky, but Firefox and Mozilla are (were) actually two different products. What was called simply Mozilla is now Seamonkey (the application suite). Firefox and Thunderbird are based off this (although mostly in terms of using the Gecko rendering engine and XUL for the interface). Both still exist, but in terms of popularity, Firefox is the iPhone of non-IE Web browsers, and Mozilla/Seamonkey is the ... well, Palm is probably still too popular to even say that.
Also, can you provide a link to support your claim that addons.mozilla.org is going to introduce a paid system in the future? Mozdev, I know, has been considering it, but to my knowledge, AMO has no plans to do so, and it would really surprise me if they did.
If you're waiting for proof from a hater, you've got a long, long wait. The first thing to observe about haters is that they don't get the basic facts right and then they proceed on some crazy tangent to land them square in the fever swamps.
AMO is going to consider a PAID section. Mmmhmm. Ron Paul for president in 2008! Yeah.
You're right that Apple takes 30% from an app's price, but I think he meant that from all the money Apple makes from its share of the money, 25% of that (so 25% of 30%) is profit.
Sure - it'd be nice if corporations brought us ad-free apps for free. But then, who is going to pay the salaries of those making the apps.
Do you really expect everyone to give you lots of top-quality stuff for free forever? Do you work for free at your job?
Apple should thank the jail break community for showing them the way.
Apple released the iPhone SDK for public beta only 8 months after the first jailbreak or 4 to 6 months after the first useful apps came from the jailbreaking community. So they certainly had the SDK in development long before the iPhone even came out.
Nowadays jailbreaking is 90 % about pirating apps (in terms of user numbers), and I don't think anybody should be thankful for that fact.
Wow, the App Store feels like it's older because it has developed so much in just a year! There has been nothing like this before.
I think Apple is still just starting to realise the importance of the app store.
Who's going to switch from iPhone to another device, if you've bought dozens of apps from the app store? It's the same 'foot in the door' that Microsoft had with DOS, then Windows - no one wanted to switch and lose their investment.
Not to mention - how many new Cocoa developers are there now? Sure, there are big differences between iPhone and Mac development, but it's a much, much smaller step now than from (say) .Net to Mac Cocoa development. It bodes well for the future (and the Mac App Store )
Who's going to switch from iPhone to another device, if you've bought dozens of apps from the app store? It's the same 'foot in the door' that Microsoft had with DOS, then Windows - no one wanted to switch and lose their investment.
Not to mention - how many new Cocoa developers are there now? Sure, there are big differences between iPhone and Mac development, but it's a much, much smaller step now than from (say) .Net to Mac Cocoa development. It bodes well for the future (and the Mac App Store
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