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Apple Hits New Milestones: 10 Billion Apps Downloaded, 160 Million iOS Users and More

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 22, 2011 at 11:30 am PT

Apple said today its App Store has hit more than 10 billion downloads worldwide, equating to roughly 62 apps for each one of its 160 million iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users.

In WWDC Postscript, Apple Announces Safari 5 Launch

John Paczkowski in News on June 7, 2010 at 3:34 pm PT

Among the Apple rumors that failed to materialize during CEO Steve Jobs’s WWDC keynote address this morning was Safari 5, the next iteration of the company’s Web browser. But shortly after 3 pm PT, an Apple news release announcing the launch appeared on the PR Newswire site, only to vanish after about 10 minutes and reappear about an hour later.

Apple Still Selling Laptops, Refreshes MacBook Pro Line

Peter Kafka in Media on April 13, 2010 at 5:43 am PT

Perhaps the iPad and tablet computers will replace laptops one day. But for now, most people are still going to use conventional computers for day-to-day work.

Apple’s App Store: 100,000 Apps, “Well Over” Two Billion Downloads

John Paczkowski in News on November 4, 2009 at 5:48 am PT

When it launched on July 10, 2008, Apple’s iTunes App Store held just 552 apps. Today, Apple tells us, it boasts more than 100,000. Astonishing, really, when you think about it. The App Store isn’t even two years old yet. Nor is the iPhone SDK.

iNotCEO, Not iCEO, to Keynote WWDC

John Paczkowski in News on May 13, 2009 at 5:51 am PT

With Steve Jobs on medical leave until the end of June, some have wondered whether the Apple CEO might put in an appearance at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference or perhaps even show up to deliver its keynote address. This morning Apple put an end to that speculation, announcing that a team of Apple executives, led by Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the keynote.

BoomTown Decodes the Apple Dumps Macworld Press Release (The "Yes, Virginia" Version)

Kara Swisher in News on December 17, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

Boomtown extends apologies to the late Francis P. Church, who penned the original “Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus” editorial in the New York Sun in 1897. But with a little rejiggering, his eloquent words work perfectly as a translation for Apple’s press release about its withdrawal from Macworld yesterday, which doubtlessly shook the Apple faithful to the core. Oddly enough, it matches up surprisingly–and a little disturbingly–well. Thus, here’s a little holiday inspiration to help those poor souls make it through these darkest of days.