Recently Apple has put up a countdown page that displays the download of iPhone and iPod touch applications from the App Store. Application download is nearing one billion mark. The download rate per second is impressive, check out here.
The App Store launch is still shy of one year and this is an extraordinary feat for Apple. This is a sales stunt. The present display shows more than 933 million downloads. Some of the most downloaded applications are Crash Bandicoot, Facebook application, Koi Pond, Google Earth, Enigmo, etc. You can see the top 20 downloaded application list here.
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What is the big idea? What kind of apps do rake in the big bucks? Well, after the smash hit Labyrinth, Tap Tap Revenge, not to forget Google Earth and other big players, it’s the turn of “iSteam: Hot and Steamy Entertainment”, a weird app, priced at $0.99 that is raking in a cool $150K from the App Store every month.
So what is so special about it? If you have not already downloaded it, check out its features here:
1. Blow on the microphone to create a haze on the screen
2. Write messages or draw on the screen the way you Read More...
May be to celebrate the 10,000 apps mark and help the searchers in navigating through the mazes of the App Store, Apple has come up with a new idea for the holiday season. They have put up a new section at the iTunes that displays the top apps (in terms of popularity) of 2008 at the App Store. The top 120 apps are there. A small chunk of the 10,000 strong brigade.
The categories chosen are:
Top Overall, Top Games, Top Entertainment, Top Utilities, Top Social Networking and Top Music. All these are organized under two categories – Top Paid Apps at Read More...
The idea is simple. It's a globe that sits inside your PC . You point and zoom to any place on the planet that you want to explore.
Google earth has been there for about three years. It has been downloaded just around 400 million times on PCs across the globe. But now, for the first time, it goes mobile and through Apple’s iPhone. The original Google Earth rhetoric is just about to change. The idea is still simple. But now the globe sits on your palmtop. Google Earth is now available for your iPhone/iPod touch.
Google Earth is one of my Read More...
