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Sep 09, 08 - 01:40 pm Comment from: Wandering joe

I wander (sic) if updates count as down loads

With version 2.1 of the iPhone/Touch software now out, can we start using those 100 million apps?

"...significant new income stream"

Translation: "I'm rich!!!!!"

Sep 09, 08 - 02:38 pm Comment from: Anonymous©

I highly doubt they are counting updates as downloads.

why they don't interview all those hundreds if not thousands of disgruntled developers/software companies who want to develop for iPhone but have not been approved by Apple yet? That would look just great in their PR: "We have written several fantastic iPhone applications, said a developer form XXX company. As a 10 year Apple developer veterans we have been granted with a 6 month wait for approval. f@#k y*u!"

It is not a joke, some companies have been waiting for months for approval (which, btw, seems to boil down to the basic check if their business is registered). Thanks to this approach we have hundreds of individual developers approved and tens of flashlights, coin flippers and other craplets.

Done, done and done. I have had Palm products for 7 years, 3 different units in all. Not only was no app I ever installed ever updated, but the Palm OS itself was never updated on any three of the Palms I owned.

I've had an iPhone for less than two months. I have installed almost 30 apps. every app but two has had an update, some 2 or 3. And the OS of the iPhone has been updated twice!

There are hordes of... oh, what to call them, assholes? There are hordes of assholes in the tech press and blogs right now who never tire of blithering about what has gone before, how Apple has done nothing new, nothing original. That all this has been done and all that Apple has done is put savvy marketing behind old tech. These people are either the stupidest people you have the misfortune of knowing, are paid shills, or merely petty failures jealous of Apple's success. What else could it be? Their devices fly off the shelf and the inherent eventual obsolescence of their electronic devices blunted by the level of support provided years after other manufacturers just expect you to buy a new device. (I'm looking at you, Palm). Every handheld device manufacturer claims hundreds if not thousan ds of apps but how do you get them? Where do you find them and where is the support?

Face it, cranks. Apple knows what it is doing. It knows more than the competition and it makes better products than the competition. And now that the "developers,developers,developers" see what's possible with a truly forward looking company, what possible incentive would they have to go back to the pointless and directionless world of frustration and isolation provided by WindowsMobile? That's right, there is no incentive.