Tag archive: iTunes App Store

Apple announced today that downloads from its Mac App Store have surpassed the 100 million threshold less than a year after its debut. The makes the Mac App Store “the largest and fastest growing PC software store in the world,” says Apple. Despite this, its popularity still pales in comparison to the iTunes App Store, which saw more than 1 billion downloads only nine months after its launch. To help boast the importance of the Mac… Read More

For a couple of years, mobile app marketplaces have largely been compared in terms of the number of apps they offer—and, historically, Apple's iTunes App Store has been way out in front, with the Android Market ringing up a somewhat-distant second place and the likes of RIM, Windows Phone, Symbian, and the now-defunct webOS lost in the back of the pack. However, research firm Ovum may be opening up a new metric in the mobile app… Read More

Apple was first to the market with its mobile revolution-launching iPhone and App Store, but a report from last month noted that Google's own app offering on the Android Market will surpass Apple's as early as July, at least in terms of the raw number of downloadable apps. The App Store is no slouch, however. 148apps, Chillingo and Chomp collaborated on an App Store stats infographic which, among other things, reveals that the… Read More

Decking out your iPhone Smurf house may cost more than you thought. The Washington Post reports that an 8-year-old girl named Madison amassed a $1,400 bill from apple for decorating her home in Smurf's Village, an iPhone and iPad game by Capcom. Though the game is targeted at young children, it lets players cheat their way toward faster rewards by using real money to purchase bountiful amounts of Smurfberries, a valuable currency within… Read More

Apple over the weekend reached its ten billionth iTunes app download, the company announced on Saturday.  The record app was a free game called Paper Glider and was downloaded on the iTunes account of Gail Davis of Opington, Kent, England. When Apple called Davis to inform her that she had won a $10,000 iTunes gift card, the mother of two said “Thank you very much, I'm not interested” and hung up the phone. After her daughters… Read More

The great Apple App Store cleansing continues. After wiping out adult apps in a controversial purge last month, the company returned this week for its next target: Wi-Fi scanning apps. Although Apple has made no formal announcement, a number of apps used for actively scanning for Wi-Fi, like WiFi Where, have mysteriously been dropped from the App Store. The Register claims that only apps using a “private framework” to detect Wi-Fi have faced the… Read More

The app store has gone Disney. And while Apple normally keeps mum on the strange app store machination that lets baby shaking apps in but rejects a dictionary for containing cuss words, the company has finally broken the silence on what brought about this latest – and most severe – round of censorship. In an interview with the New York Times, Apple’s head of worldwide product marketing, Phil Schiller, said that the app store was seeing “an… Read More

Apple’s MobileMe Gallery app allows iPhone users to view entire photo galleries, flick through and zoom-in on photos, view friends’ gallery photos and share links to albums. The software also automatically stores photos that have been viewed, so they can be accessed again even without a network connection. Apple says the free MobileMe Gallery app lets you view all the photos and movies published in your gallery with “a tap” of the screen.

A new App store was announced today and it has nothing to do with Apple or Google. Companies all over the world can now have their own mobile app stores to sell any and all apps they choose to launch. YourAppShop is a new platform that offers a bountiful and legal alternative to iTunes. YourAppShop was created by magician Steve Sheraton of Hottrix, the same developer behind the popular iBeer and iSoda apps. Sheraton says he created YourAppShop… Read More

Apple has announced that its App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch now offers more than 100,000 applications for the mobile devices, making it by far the largest mobile application store on the planet. All told, Apple says App Store users have downloaded more than 2 billion programs to enhance the functionality of their iPhones and iPod touch devices; many of those applications are free, but some notable developers (like game developers and… Read More