Connected Data: Why we develop for the iPhone or “Fish where the fish are.”
Sam McDonald
· 1 year ago
I too am a fan of the App Store. Recently I have a heard a lot of people complaining about how they reject some applications, but let google use a private APi. The truth is many of the apps out there use private API's or have other things that invalidate them (like suing LUA for a game). They are just much quieter about it because they don't want to get in trouble.
I think overall the Apple Store is a great place, as long as you don't do obvious things that Apple can't accept.
Hotcurry
· 1 year ago
The Apple Special event on Sept 9th this year, officially pegged the number of iTunes accounts, with credit cards at 65 million. check out the podcast
I'm quite sure at MWSF08, Steve Jobs said there were 60M iTunes accounts, and from looking at your other comments, it appears that number is now 65M.
There were 13M iPhones sold as of the end of last quarter, and it's quite likely 3 to 4M more have been sold in the last two months leading to about 16 or 17M in circulation. That does not include iPod Touches, which also can use most iPhone apps. I had an EDGE iPhone which I gave a friend, and now own a 3G iPhone. I bought two iPod Touches this last month for Xmas presents for family members.
While there are lots of Blackberries out there, at the same time, they all have different specs, different screensizes, different cpu speeds, different input methods, etc, so that large installed base, is fragmented under many different types of handsets requiring apps to be customised.
Also, you better hurry, as I just saw that there are 10,000 iPhone and Touch apps now in the AppStore.
manny
· 1 year ago
Number of iPod Touches should be about ~20M in circulation which bring the total number of Apple touch platform to 37M devices.
Perry Clease
· 1 year ago
Some real excellent points
gambling
· 10 months ago
60M sounds accurate to me. I'd much rather develop for the I-Phone than a Blackberry.
CSET
· 5 months ago
What's amazing to is that all of this growth is going on in the middle of the most serious recession in housing since the Great Depression! To have this kind of application growth and iPhone sales growth is really incredible and something only a handful of the best companies in the world could execute. Congrats Apple. It was a long time coming.
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I think overall the Apple Store is a great place, as long as you don't do obvious things that Apple can't accept.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/...
There were 13M iPhones sold as of the end of last quarter, and it's quite likely 3 to 4M more have been sold in the last two months leading to about 16 or 17M in circulation. That does not include iPod Touches, which also can use most iPhone apps. I had an EDGE iPhone which I gave a friend, and now own a 3G iPhone. I bought two iPod Touches this last month for Xmas presents for family members.
While there are lots of Blackberries out there, at the same time, they all have different specs, different screensizes, different cpu speeds, different input methods, etc, so that large installed base, is fragmented under many different types of handsets requiring apps to be customised.
Also, you better hurry, as I just saw that there are 10,000 iPhone and Touch apps now in the AppStore.