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Jul 10, 09 - 10:11 am Comment from: Wandering Joe

Great take, almost made break me wind laughing! :-D

Jul 10, 09 - 10:13 am Comment from: jarrettdailynews

That's farting ridiculous. More passed gas Apps in the App Store than palm's pre has Apps... Something doesn't smell entirely right here. Am I missing something in "passing".

Okay, first post today. Excuse me, just had to comment being I was downwind of this story.

Jul 10, 09 - 10:39 am Comment from: 84 Mac Guy

"Apple's iPhone has more fart apps than Palm's Pre has apps."

Let's be fair. One POS phone like the Pre easily trumps 50 fart apps. The aroma is the same.

Apple is rolling in the dough just from developers. What is the minimum fee to become an iPhone Developer? $100, isn't it?

So 14,935 publishers (times) $100 minimum = 1,493,500.

So $1.5 million just for being able to download the SDK and potentially publish and app. Nice supplemental income stream.

And most of those downloads were promptly deleted from the user's iPhone/Touch. When I got mine, I downloaded about 50 apps in the first few days, and then deleted all but a handful.

Funny, when people on the PC side try to say that software availability is a strength of their platform, MDN rips them because the quality of the programs sucks. But the suckage of most iPhone Apps doesn't stop MDN from making the same argument in favor of the iPhone/Touch. Hypocrite much?

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http://bustedloop.com/blog/2009/7/6/where-can-you-get-two-weeks-of-itunes-app-store-data.html

Jul 10, 09 - 12:17 pm Comment from: Steve516

"I fart in your general direction!"

Jul 10, 09 - 12:33 pm Comment from: Predrag

Mrboma:

You are confusing MDN with other mainstream press. MDN's usual argument about PC vs. Mac app availability was along the lines of: "What good does it do to have hundreds of thousands of applications to choose from when the few best ones are Mac-only". Well, with the iPhone, not only do you have thousands of apps to chose from, but the few best ones are on the iPhone as well. Clearly, nothing from the Pre catalogue is so good that a better choice can't be found for the iPhone.

Nothing hypocritical here.

@Predrag:
Nicely sliced.

Jul 10, 09 - 03:14 pm Comment from: Cubert

Apple needs to revamp the App Store layout to make it easier to find an app for your particular need in your price range.

This reminds me of when the number of Widgets took off after Tiger was released.

@ MDN take:

Well said! Ha... That was too good!