11 posts and columns on iTunes App Store

Android Market Now on Pace With Apple at More Than 1 Billion Downloads a Month

in Mobile on December 6, 2011 at 1:00 pm PT

The Android Market is serving up more than a billion apps per month. So is Apple’s iTunes App Store.
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Apple Just Moved a Billion Apps in a Month

in News on July 7, 2011 at 5:44 am PT

Apple users have downloaded 15 billion apps from its iTunes app store in three years, the company announced today. A month ago, at its developers’ conference, Apple put its app download total at 14 billion. So that’s some pretty straightforward math.
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So That's 100,000 Copies of Twitter and 900,000 Copies of Angry Birds?

in News on January 7, 2011 at 6:55 am PT

Apple’s Mac App Store is off to an impressive start. It racked up one million downloads in its first 24 hours of business (the top selling app: Angry Birds).That’s a strong showing by any measure–particularly for a brand-new service with limited offerings that relies on an OS update for activation. That said, it’s not nearly as strong as the one put on by the iTunes App Store, its best reference point. That service racked up 10 million downloads its first weekend.

FT: The iPhone's "App" Battle

in News on December 23, 2009 at 3:20 pm PT

The Financial Times has decided Apple’s iPhone doesn’t have the monopoly on smartphone programs any more, even though it practically invented the category, and even though the iTunes App store has 100,000 programs for the iPhone and counting.

The FCC Is Going COMCASTIC!

in News on March 10, 2008 at 12:14 pm PT

Sun Plans "Ball and Chain" for iPhone

in News on March 10, 2008 at 5:10 am PT

Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.” –Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Feb. 2007 Sun Microsystems has apparently taken Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s disparaging remarks about Java as a bit of friendly ribbing. The company plans to develop a version of Java Virtual Machine for the iPhone, [...]

Sun Plans “Ball and Chain” for iPhone

in News on March 10, 2008 at 5:10 am PT

Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.” –Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Feb. 2007 Sun Microsystems has apparently taken Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s disparaging remarks about Java as a bit of friendly ribbing. The company plans to develop a version of Java Virtual Machine for the iPhone, [...]

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in News on March 6, 2008 at 12:00 pm PT

What, No Oracle Database 11g for iPhone?

in News on March 6, 2008 at 10:18 am PT

We’re telling IT executives to not support it because Apple has no intentions of supporting (iPhone use in) the enterprise. This is basically a cellular iPod with some other capabilities and it’s important that it be recognized as such.” –Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney, July 2, 2007 Today’s an important one for Apple (AAPL). The company [...]