Here’s a tip that’ll save you some money at the App Store: When downloading an app, do it from your computer rather than through your iPhone or iPod Touch directly. What’s the difference?
Well, it so happens that there’s a little problem with the App Store. It identifies you as a unique customer by your iTunes account--not by your device, and certainly not through a combination of both.
What it means is that if you download an application--whether free or paid--through iTunes, you can sync in with your iPhone as well as other iPhones or iPod touches--without paying anything extra.
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A favorite game among analysts in the tech world is to try and predict the sales of the iPhone for a specific period, or in general make any iPhone related predictions. Stocks, profits, revenue, market share—anything you can think of has already been predicted.
In this column, we’ll file all such predictions as they come in, and you’ll be able to find them by date or by analyst, and also see for yourself how the predictions actually panned out.
One of the foremost “predictors” is Gene Munster, analyst at Piper Jaffray. Let’s begin with his latest--a quick summary of all his earlier Read More...
The latest research by Strategy Analytics says that the iPhone will capture 35 percent of the touchscreen phone market. In US. In 2008. But in 2009, it seems that:
The competition is rising fast and hanging on to that 35 percent marketshare will be a major challenge for Apple.
I’m sure these findings are based on some substantial research, but I don’t like the last bit is abut Apple “Hanging on” to its market share in 2009. While other companies are offering only a device (Nokia Tube, Samsung Instinct, etc.), Apple offers a platform (the App Store, and the iTunes store), Read More...
