Apple Store Has Surpassed 3 Billion Downloads
Post published on 6th January 2010
Apple has posted an official press release to inform that the App Store has surpassed 3 billion downloads in less than 18 months. This news is really exciting enough to impress Apple and even the whole industry.
“This is like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” said with emotion by Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, “The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”
It is easy to find that the pace of downloads has grown exponentially. Apple announced on Apr. 23 that its store surpassed 1 billion downloads, close behind it reached 2 billion downloads on Sep. 28, and now, 3 billion. Following such an increase trend, a larger download volume may be released in the near future.
Rune Trails – A Challenging Brain Teaser
Post published on 4th January 2010
Rune Trails is a challenging brain teaser that will just keep you coming back for more. Move the rune pieces around the board and create trails of five or more pieces to make them disappear. Every time you make a move, new pieces are added to the board.
You’ll have to be clever and think of ways of removing the pieces faster than they appear. From time to time, special runes will help you clean a few more pieces. But don’t count too much on them! If the board fills up, you lose! Rune Trails is very intuitive and very easy to learn. With the beautiful graphics and sound effects, I am sure you will enjoy playing this addictive game.
1,000% Downloads for iPod Touch on Xmas Day
Post published on 29th December 2009
App Store downloads for the iPod Touch were 1,000 percent higher on Friday, Christmas Day, than the average of the three previous Fridays in December, according to a report released Monday by research firm Flurry. Downloads for the newest generation, the iPod Touch 3G, soared more than 900 percent on Christmas due to the flood of iTunes gift cards.
There are estimated 58 million iPhone and iPod Touch devices on the market, about 40 percent of those, or 24 million, are iPod Touch devices, according to another Flurry report. App Store downloads for the iPod Touch jumped past those for the iPhone for the first time, outpacing them by 172 percent. The trend continued the following day, with iPod Touch downloads on December 26 exceeding those for the iPhone by 104 percent. The volume in overall App Store downloads also grew by more than 50 percent in December.
Google’s Android Market can’t compare with the App Store at this point, but its recent download volume should offer Android vendors some holiday cheer. December downloads from the Android Market store grew by more than 20 percent over November. Downloads for Motorola’s Droid, in particular, rose 93 percent on Christmas Day compared with the three previous Fridays of the month. The Droid also captured 48 percent of all download volume versus other top Android devices, including the myTouch 3G, G1, and the HTC Hero).
Though Android may always play second fiddle to Apple, at least in the foreseeable future, that doesn’t mean the Android Market can’t have a significantly good business, notes Farago. Flurry predicts that by the end of next year, 150,000 apps will be available for Android phones, up from around 20,000 to 25,000 now.