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Line Rider iRide cruises on into the App Store
No, it's got nothing to do with drugs. Probably
Comment on Growth of iPhone App Store: Two times faster than the iTunes by Peter
Steve makes a very good point here. And to add on to it further, what percentage of people's music content is paid content from iTunes? Steve Jobs suggested that the figure is around 7%. What's my point? Well, if iTunes is successful when only 7% of people's musical content is paid for, and the App Store is growing 2-4 times faster than iTunes, with a base that's at least 10 times smaller (there have been 160 million iPods sold), and Apple has a monopoly on iPhone Apps and keeps 70% of the revenue... App Store is looking pretty profitable to me. Let's do the math: Let's say that each iPhone user, on average, splurges on Apps an buys 1 App of 0.99$ per month... and let's say that Apple has 14M iPhones sold by the end of 2008. Let's even forget about the Touch users. That's 14M of revenue every month, 70% goes to Apple, so $116,000,000 per year in earnings (if we place the App Store overhead at zero). Not bad for a business that started 2 months ago... Not realistic you say: ever seen what teenagers pay for ringtones? More importantly though, even if Apply doesn't make a dime on the App Store, the spinoff effect is tremendous. These Apps effectively change what the iPhone can do... how many users will sign on because of a function they see on their buddy's iPhone? Well, I'm a financial consultant and at least 3 of my colleagues decided to buy iPhones when they saw my Bloomberg App (which is free by the way). Food for thought. Cheers!
Comment on Growth of iPhone App Store: Two times faster than the iTunes by Ken
22% you idiot.
Comment on Growth of iPhone App Store: Two times faster than the iTunes by hubert
78% of Apps in App Store are paid applications according to mobclix com...
App Store Pick of the Week: X-Plane 9
Fasten your seat belt. It’s time to jet away. With X-Plane 9 ($9.99), Laminar Research brings “the Gold Standard for accurate flight simulation” to iPhone and iPod touch, letting you fly your choice of 4 planes. In turbulent or calm skies. Over oceans or mountains. What’s it like to fly a plane using only your [...]
Five “under-the-hood” things you should know about App Store apps
Ted Landau September 2008 The App Store is no doubt one of the best things to have happened to the iPhone (and the iPod touch). Users are happily adding a wide array of apps to their devices, usually with little or no difficulty. Still, occasionally things go wrong. At such times, beyond the standard troubleshooting advice you’ll [...]
Apptism: an Alternative to Apple's iPhone Apps Store (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - All it takes to set of a storm of controversy on the Web is for is one really good iPhone application to be declined by Apple; everyone buzzes about why Apple is accepting certain iPhone apps and not others. If you want a truly open Apple apps store, try Apptism.
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Growth of iPhone App Store: Two times faster than the iTunes
When statistics compared the App Store of the iPhone and the iTunes, both from Apple Inc. the figures revealed that the application store is currently growing faster than the iTunes since it was launched last July. It was only last August when Apple Inc. announced that the number of downloaded applications in the App Store reached [...]

iPhone developer sidesteps App Store to sell banned Podcaster
A developer whose iPhone application was rejected for Apple's App Store has turned to a little-known, but still Apple-approved, distribution channel to sell his work.
Tag Games Releases Rock ‘n’ Roll on App Store
Tag Games announced details of their first title for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Rock ‘n’ Roll is about to set the AppStore alight when it is released later in September. >


