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- nickspohn, on 01/17/2009, -10/+92And about 300 are actually useful.
- guytoronto, on 01/17/2009, -3/+63Absolutely stellar.
Developers get a decent SDK. They get a FREE, secure store to market their products on. They get a decent cut of the sales. They get a large, target audience.
Is it any wonder more and more people are writing apps for the iPhone? - KirbyMorph, on 01/17/2009, -5/+55Fart aps make up an estimated 450 million downloads.
- angusware, on 01/17/2009, -14/+45Including 14,000 to-do lists!
- thedrue, on 01/17/2009, -8/+29Why do you all continue to bash apple when all they are trying to do is provide us with a safe, reliable, easy way to get content for the device they build. If you want to continue to search and find everything you want the hard way fine but I for one enjoy using the app store and don't mind everything being in one place.
Also I love it how everyone condemned apple for denying access to these fart apps and stuff but now that they are allowed on the app store you knock it. - guytoronto, on 01/17/2009, -3/+23I guess making and marketing the iPhone, creating the iTunes stores, providing a stable OS, and giving the ability for small software developers to make money is "Nothing".
- fandyboy, on 01/17/2009, -2/+19Haha, the guy I sit next to at work bought a Blackberry Storm, the next day I got an iPhone and Jailbroke it. Once he'd seen me using my iPhone for a couple of days that Blackberry went STRAIGHT onto Ebay. He now has an iPhone.
True story. - viksmaester, on 01/18/2009, -1/+9this is nothing....linux has 27 apps available for download and they have been downloaded 976 times.
- Anliz, on 01/17/2009, -2/+9lol
- psplayer6, on 01/17/2009, -2/+8Apple's iTouch is the first iPod where I feel its high price has been justified. I have 7 pages of apps and I got them all for free from the app "store."
Sure some of them are stupid, but a lot aren't.
You cant beat the price of free. - notadiggtard, on 01/17/2009, -0/+6300 is many more than the phone can hold!
- jammyfred, on 01/17/2009, -11/+17and yet most of them suck balls. If only it was easier to weed out the good stuff.
- inactive, on 01/17/2009, -0/+5Crazy! This is turning into a billion dollar business!
- TomFrost, on 01/17/2009, -2/+7And the iPhone *doesn't* have those? Just because there's a ton of ***** apps in the app store doesn't negate the existence of the Netters software or Epocrates or pretty much anything else there's a professional call for.
- inactive, on 01/17/2009, -1/+5I bought my Macbook Pro. Then I bought software from other companies. I also bought RAM from another company. And a mouse from another company.
- SuperSunny, on 01/17/2009, -1/+5You haven't updated it? Ever since 2.2 I've had Safari crash 0 times on me.
- inactive, on 01/17/2009, -0/+4Apple must have made an insane amount of money from this.
- Viciousblade, on 01/17/2009, -0/+3Good for apple. Now give me some applications that I actually want and that work the way that they should work (through push notifications and/or background processes) and a reliable browser and I'll consider myself really happy with my iPhone purchase instead of just content.
90% of the apps that I have on my iPhone I could do without but got them because they were free and I was bored at work or class. Most of them are just time-wasting games/ entertainment apps that I'll use every now and then to find a restaurant or get movie times but really could just use the map function/ the web browser to do the exact same thing..
Ah well, c'est la vie. - notadiggtard, on 01/17/2009, -0/+3Why the ***** do you care so much?
- KibibyteBrain, on 01/17/2009, -1/+4Its not because it has more apps, or even better apps.Actually, OSX has lots of apps, and many of them are pretty brilliant in design.
The problem is Windows is rich in apps that people need, and specialized apps. Are you an Actuary and need advanced statistics packages? Probably need windows. A mechanical engineer and want to run a wide variety of CAD tools and specialized modeling tools? Windows. An Electrical Engineer and need to run PSPICE or a dev tool for microcontrollers or FPGAs with vendor support? Windows. Adobe Premiere? Windows. Microsoft Office? Windows. Academic work requiring Visual Studio(very popular in some research areas)? Windows.
There are alternatives for other OSes, and I've tried them and to go open source, but I can't, there are always a few things missing and it never makes sense not to use an OS than can just do everything you need by playing games like virtualization. Of course, sometimes it works the other way around, like Final Cut Pro for Mac or some of the Cadence VLSI design tools for Unix, but more often than not these cases favor Windows. - notadiggtard, on 01/17/2009, -1/+3Speak the truth ,get dugg down!
- DelMonte, on 01/17/2009, -1/+3I concur, in 2.0 and especially 2.1, Safari was very crashy, but I only had 1 Safari crash since updating to 2.2, and I use it a lot.
The general consensus is that 2.2 fixed Safari crash problems.
Oh and aragami, looking at your post history on Digg, I find it hard to believe that you own an iPhone or iPod touch. It seems that you're just repeating what some said back in the days of version 2.1, trying to make us believe that it's happening to you. - rnawky, on 01/18/2009, -1/+3And 99% of the free apps that have ads in them.
And when you accidentally click on an ad, it opens in safari and you lose everything you were doing in the app you left
Because iPhones can't multi task for some reason.
Oh wait, they can play music in the background can't they? Well that's about it. - sensor, on 01/17/2009, -2/+4Nice little strawmans there.
- Bicx, on 01/18/2009, -0/+2Rolando!
- viksmaester, on 01/18/2009, -0/+2for the developers...FTW
- Bungiechord, on 01/18/2009, -0/+2How many on IAmRich?
- ImperialSoren, on 01/17/2009, -0/+2friday 13th
- pedepy, on 01/17/2009, -0/+2and 1 billion dollars
- jason221, on 01/17/2009, -5/+6That's awesome!
- notadiggtard, on 01/17/2009, -1/+2So they are all suckers?Jealous much?
scrap3r:the reason is irrelevant. - notadiggtard, on 01/17/2009, -0/+1No that one come free with the phone.
- Sil369, on 01/18/2009, -0/+1in 5 min.
- RepublicofJosh, on 01/18/2009, -0/+1300's good enough for me...haha
- mirunit, on 01/17/2009, -0/+1Yep, at Wal-Mart for sure.
- RepublicofJosh, on 01/18/2009, -0/+1that's it? just 1?
- psplayer6, on 01/17/2009, -0/+1If its so easy make them yourself.
- samard2002, on 01/17/2009, -2/+3Nice Straw Man argument. Who the ***** said that?
- aristotle0dude, on 01/18/2009, -0/+1Uh dude, most phones out there are locked into the service provider's stores which offer a lot worse of a deal for the developers. Take Palm for example which has a much higher upfront cost compared with only 99 dollars for registration as a developers. Other mobile platforms charge per app.
- AddictedtoAOTS, on 01/17/2009, -0/+1Apple is evil! They just want your money...but I still love them!
- Sil369, on 01/18/2009, -0/+1outrageous!
- cerealjynx, on 01/18/2009, -0/+1I'm jealous too.
- hongkongjapie, on 01/19/2009, -0/+1And if you have loads of money and a good game concept, http://unity3d.com/ has an iphone development platform that works reasonably well, my biggest gripe is the startup time of the build applications.
- Jimmni, on 01/18/2009, -0/+1I don't know why people make a fuss about the number of crap apps. Sure, most are crap. But so are most Mac apps, most PC apps, most PS2 and Wii games. At least there's a good selection. The criticisms should be aimed at how hard it is to find the good stuff due to the poor design of the app store, not of the apps themselves.
- herchu, on 01/18/2009, -0/+1In spite of its shortcomings it's, without doubt, a great success.
But Apple can do even better:
- Protect developers by making the platform more secure against piracy.
- Allow trial or demo applications, - ranon78, on 01/17/2009, -1/+2June '09
- cycledesign, on 01/17/2009, -0/+1Actually I'd bet the money probably just covers the cost of running the app store. They provide the platform to sell it on, the bandwidth, and do all the transaction processing. It's really just a vehicle for selling iPhones/iPods.
- sssam, on 01/17/2009, -0/+1Including a Fart Lighter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rfQ-4JqxA8 - jbond, on 01/18/2009, -0/+1Still no native Skype though.
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