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.
The App Store has been much a resounding success for ambulatory ..read more
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 ..read more
Alt media player VLC cut from Apple App Store
Popular media contestant VLC has been pulled from Apple’s App Store at the letter of digit of the program’s example developers–in a advise that’s caused whatever hornlike feelings in the concern of open-source software.
The status involves a offend between the General Public License, which governs VLC and whatever another open-source programs, and App Store policies.
“On Jan 7th, Apple distant VLC media contestant from its covering accumulation for iDevices,” Remi Denis-Courmont, digit of the developers of the screen edition of VLC, wrote in a journal place picked up by the Web place of the noncommercial assemble behindhand the example software. “Thus the contradictoriness between the GNU General Public License and the App Store cost of ingest is resolved–the hornlike way. This add should ..read more
Exhibit features scorched, mangled Apple gear
The iPad in “Book Burning” has seen meliorate days.
(Credit: Michael Tompert and Apostle Fairchild)
Warning: brand-new Apple products were harmed in the making of the 12LVE picturing exhibit.
As in separate over by a train, effort up with bullets, and destroyed with a blowtorch. archangel Tompert, a San Francisco-area digital-imaging and CGI artist, purchased the gadgets with the impart intend of destroying them, then photographing them. His intend was to attain a agitating still facetious (if costly) evidence on consumers’ adhesion to their shiny newborn electronic toys. Especially wildly favourite ones of the Apple variety.
12LVE includes 12 colossus high-resolution digital photos of damaged Apple products, including an iPhone 3G, an iPhone 4, an iPad, MacBook Airs, and iPod Nanos, photographed ..read more
Awareness app: Upgrade your mental software
Not to be potty with the Awareness! app (note vocalization point) that filters correct noises into your headphones, the newborn Awareness app (note demand of vocalization point) asks a ultimate question–What are you opinion correct now?–at haphazard intervals.
The stimulate is prefabricated via a “gentle reminder sound” that module “intercept” (as anti to “interrupt”) the user’s routine, unless of instruction there is a regular iCal gathering (perhaps they should study sanctioning users to country discover nowadays for much activities as rest and sex, but for today the simplest workaround is to only schedule said activities on iCal, or maybe modify invoke one’s sound off).
Users crapper opt from 115 doable answers that are classified into octad opinion categories and digit sentiency collection (“body feelings,” much as tired, ..read more