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Apple's App Store Hits 15 Billion Downloads
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Appshopper is quite good, discovered it a few days ago and the amount of information it has is shocking.
Well, it may be a walled garden, but the walls are an awfully long way away when you're standing in the middle!
Wait, though, didn't Steve say that web apps were all we'd ever need?
Wait, though, didn't Steve say that web apps were all we'd ever need?
So after a "certain age" one should not use the word "cool".
OK, I can take a hint. Since I am of a "certain age" (read: old), I'll never use cool again.
How about nifty, swell, the bees knees, or the cat's pajamas. Is that OK for us old farts? ;-)
OK, I can take a hint. Since I am of a "certain age" (read: old), I'll never use cool again.
How about nifty, swell, the bees knees, or the cat's pajamas. Is that OK for us old farts? ;-)
Your funny. But I can't tell you how many times I found something I really liked that probably wasn't in the top 50. Everyone looks at the top apps so the app store is largely unexplored. Sort of like going to New York on vacation and only hanging out at the airport.
This is exciting. I can't wait until they hit 20 billion. I'm thinking of throwing a big party to celebrate.
Dunno about those other smartphone sales. However, in comparison to dumbphones:
Just Qualcomm BREW apps on carriers like Verizon have paid out over $3 billion to developers, having shipped on over 1 billion devices. And btw, that royalty amount was with only 18,000 apps, so BREW developers are doing quite well.
Apple wasn't trying to save users from carriers, but to replace carrier app stores with their own lucrative walled garden.
Today's generations should be glad that us old farts invented "cool" and fought for rock & roll.
Otherwise it'd all still be like "Pleasantville", with teens saying "golly" and listening to Pat Boone
Then just sift through the categories or search using keywords.
Or ask around. Or research on the web. Like you'd do if there was no App Store to begin with.
Complaints like yours are ridiculous.
that is ok, with Apple giving away 100 dollars AppStore gift cards for every MAC sold to a student they will have another chance to put Philip Schiller up there soon
I think it's 20-30% free apps in the app store where Android is 60-70% free.
iOS has double the amount of 425,000 apps that Android has 200,000 what Google announced at Google I/O in May.
People underestimate the number of highly useful niche apps in there.
I probably have two score of apps that almost nobody in this thread would find useful at all yet are highly useful to them... Same with others they have apps they use that nobody else would have any use for...
The number of niche apps is very high and most of those are free, and extremely useful.
I probably have two score of apps that almost nobody in this thread would find useful at all yet are highly useful to them... Same with others they have apps they use that nobody else would have any use for...
The number of niche apps is very high and most of those are free, and extremely useful.
15 billion apps downloaded by 200 million users? So that is an avg. of 75 apps per device?
Seems steep.
Seems steep.
The mean average is probably way off the median because of the 80/20 rule. A minority of iOS users (say 20%) are probably downloading several 100's of (mostly free) apps, while the majority of users probably download closer to only a couple dozen apps or less.
a great milestone for apple and the app store. will they ever catch twitter and the amount of tweets?