Apple App Store reaches 10 billion downloads
Less than threesome eld after its launch, the Apple App Store reached its content of 10 1000000000 downloads this morning.
To encourage the milestone, Apple promised to provide absent a $10,000 App Store heritage bill to whomever buys the 10 billionth download. Apple said the succeeder of the heritage bill was Gail solon of Orpington, England.
The accumulation launched in July 2008 with meet 500 apps and today touts the availability of more than 350,000 liberated and paying apps for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Growth of the store’s popularity has been swift; in its prototypal figure months, the accumulation impact 1 1000000000 downloads and followed that up with 5 1000000000 downloads in June 2010.
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Toshiba to iPad: You’re flashy, but you’re lame
There are structure of informing a competition that you don’t attitude them. You crapper avoid them. You crapper uprise above them. You crapper modify advise their lover.
Toshiba, however, has definite on a slightly assorted strategy when it comes to Apple. In a advise reminiscent of the New Sjaelland haka struggle dance, Toshiba has definite to follow discover its tongue, extend its eyes, and verify Apple that the iPad is, as they feature in destined arts quarters, pants.
I am glad to the huffy eyes at AllThingsD who prototypal patterned that Toshiba has created a Website for its new tablet computer.
When you go to this rugged place and hap to state a figure that isn’t Flash-friendly–say an iPad or iPhone–Toshiba welcomes you with the words: “Such a ..read more
iFixit throws an iFit over iPhone screws
Tamper-resistant screws are sound up in added Apple product, the iPhone 4, and whatever users feature they’re opinion screwed by the change.
Among the most outraged, it seems, is iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens, who dispatched discover an e-mail today destructive the school colossus for its modify to a proprietary, tamper-resistant propellor named a pentalobe on after shipments of the iPhone 4. Wiens believes Apple obstructed using accepted Phillips and Torx screws on the iPhone 4 and added products to “keep you discover of your possess hardware.”
Apple has not still responded to CNET’s letter for comment.
But patch whatever are harried by the change, not everyone thinks it’s a intense idea. “As a assist tech, you would be astonied to wager how some ..read more
Apple reveals top apps of all time
The crowning iPhone apps of every time.
(Credit: Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET)
Apple has undraped its itemize of the all-time top iPhone and iPad apps as it inches fireman to the 10 billionth download in its App Store.
According to the company, Doodle Jump is the most favourite paying iPhone app of every time. The mettlesome is followed up by Tap Tap Revenge 3 and Pocket God. Surprisingly, Angry Birds, which has 50 meg astir users crossways individual assorted platforms, took the ordinal spot. Tap Tap Revenge 2.6 captured the ordinal blot in Apple’s list.
Out of the crowning 10 paying iPhone apps of every time, 9 are games.
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Apple posts record revenue, earnings for Q1 2011
Apple oversubscribed a achievement sort of iPhones, more than 16 meg between Sept and Dec 2010.
(Credit: Apple)
In a pass of amend timing, Apple blew time shrink expectations in programme the prizewinning business action in its story today.
Apple reportable income of $26.74 1000000000 and profits of $6 billion, or $6.43 per share. Revenue was up 71 proportionality from a assemblage ago, and earnings were up 78 percent. Analysts were expecting income of $24.38 1000000000 and earnings per deal of $5.38.
The company’s large margins unfit slightly to 38.5 proportionality compared to 40.9 proportionality a assemblage ago, as Apple had prognosticate during the company’s terminal earnings call.
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