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Jan 19, 09 - 12:19 pm Comment from: Wandering joe

App store peaks!! I read it on the interweb!!!!

Jan 19, 09 - 12:20 pm Comment from: Wandering joe

@cdr, it's the thought that counts!!

If iTunes and the app store were apples only product it would be seen as an extremely succesfull company. Now add all of apples other products and you have probably the most profitable and more potential than any other brand in the world. Buy now!

Unfortunately about 1/3 of them are designed to imitate bodily noises (and it says something rather unflattering about our society that these are among the most popular) or perform such exciting functions as telling the time of day or lighting up the screen as a flashlight.

Still, obviously there are some really cool apps too, and I'm glad for Apple that downloads are going so well.

I've noticed difficulty in connection to the store when checking for updates on my phone recently, if I do a search for an app or download one it works fine but updates can time out repeatedly before working - irrespective of the type of internet connection.

And the ball has just started rolling. Soon Virex and Norton will have an iPhone app. Billions have been made on the pre-concept of possible security problems and peoples fear of them.
They will get on the mobile bandwagon. Hackers are their best friend...they've ran straight to the bank.

Developers wanted an SDK...Steve Jobs gave it to them...now we will soon have to sort thru 100 thousand of 'em. We wanted choice...now we have to sort thru choices like the old PC software section of the DOA CompUSA(no rhyme intended).

Jan 19, 09 - 01:22 pm Comment from: Randian

@Military Police

Be careful, MP, your snobbishness is showing. (Of course, there is almost nothing more gratifying than pointing out, from on high, the foibles of the human race. Elevating our sense of self-worth on the shoulders of weak, silly, less-than-Olympian hoi polloi is delicious and indisputably invaluable.)

Speaking for all us groundlings who have purchased one or more of the plebian apps you so deplore, MP, mea culpa, mea culpa. Hair shirts for us, one and all. Now it's back to Noel Coward, G. B. Shaw, and Puccini for my afternoon repast.

Yet further proof that the iPhone platform is doomed. Oh when will Apple ever learn to listen to analysts and industry pundits. [end of sarcasm] I've downloaded about 88 applications so far. Not all of them are used of course, I think there's about 40 or so on my iPhone. And those (not built-in) used on a daily basis include, AIM, FaceBook, Solitaire, GymGoal Lite, Lose It!, PockeyMoney, Night Stand, Remote, Grocery IQ, and What's On?

Jan 19, 09 - 03:08 pm Comment from: Brau

I noticed this happen immediately following the story of the basement developer who made a cool $1,000,000 in 3-4 weeks selling a 99¢ app. By the time other "iPhone killers" reach the market they will so so far behind it will be like the iPod onslaught all over again. If Apple decides to offer a lower cost iPhone/Touch to really attack marketshare, it'll be all but over for competitors.

Jan 19, 09 - 04:04 pm Comment from: Cubert

I think to claim that you are doomed as a developer if your iPhone app isn't yet in the Store is the same as saying you are doomed for releasing an OS X app last year vs. 2001. People are and will continue to do well developing for the iPhone platform.

If you take away all the "fart" and "call/mail/sms my boss/sister/…" and other useless apps there are not half as many. Although there still are plenty of pearls on the app store, more than enough good apps for what I need. It's just that it gets harder to find them among the trash every day

Ever since Apple released the DRM free tracks, the iTMS has become very very slow. I'm on a 100mbit pipe and sometimes have to wait for more than 30 seconds for a page to load (used to be like 2-3secs). The search function is especially slow.

BTW, does anyone know why one is forced to update ALL purchased tracks when updating from 128kbps to 256kbps??? It's ridiculous to say the least (plus it would cost me close to 900€!) I wouldn't mind updating 50-60% of my tracks, but I've got loads that I simply don't care about. Please correct me if I've misunderstood something.

Yet another article mentions only the iPhone.
The touch makes up a very large part of those sales. It's been selling like hot cakes.
Many believe, including myself, that the touch is already outselling the iPhone.
But it hardly ever gets a mention.