macrumors.com — A banner on Apple's front page proclaims that the App Store has surpassed 15,000 available applications and 500 million downloads. The milestones come just over six months after the App Store's debut.Apple last reported on December 5th, 2008 that they had surpassed 10,000 available applications and 300 million downloads.
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c8h8r8i8s8Jan 17, 2009
go back to 4chan, please
addictedtoaotsJan 17, 2009
Apple is evil! They just want your money...but I still love them!
kibibytebrainJan 17, 2009
Its 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.
chetchezJan 18, 2009
There's no such product as an Apple iTouch. There is, however an Apple iPod touch.
cerealjynxJan 18, 2009
I'm jealous too.
herchuJan 18, 2009
In 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,
spaceshipsixJan 18, 2009
Wow you're awfully critical of a tiny device that can surf the internet. Sorry it doesn't perform like a desktop.People that write free apps for the phone aren't doing it for charity btw.
jbondJan 18, 2009
Still no native Skype though.
forbetaorworseJan 18, 2009
Can someone point me towards a good beginner objective-c online course or something close to that? I dabbled with applescript but I want to really dig into objective-c and start working on Mac and iPhone apps. Preferably with examples and activities in Xcode that I can use to confirm that I am keeping up with the training? I would be forever grateful thanks!