iPhone App Store stats don’t add up to $$$
iPhone app developer Rick Strom has nearly 20 apps in Apple’s App Store. So when Strom claims that apps aren’t selling, he has first-hand data to back it up. His Zen Jar app, when it was free of charge, was downloaded around 1,200 times daily. As a 99 cent app, it’s only bought around 30 times per day. Yet that places it at #34 in the popular Social Networking category. Strom’s hit app nets him… Continue Reading
App Store downloads pass one-billion mark
According to the counter on the front page of the App Store, Apple passed the one billion mark just before two o’clock today. Whoever won the title of billionth download will be making off like a bandit: The Cupertino company will be contacting them to deliver a 17″ MacBook Pro, a 32GB iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and an iTunes Gift Certificate worth $10,000.
Reaching a billion downloads so quickly is impressive: the App Store has only… Continue Reading
What recession? Apple sees best non-holiday quarter ever
Not even a crumbling economy and the absence of co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs can stop Apple. At least according to its second quarter earnings report, covering the period ending March 28, which beat analysts’ expectations — and then some.
Those analysts predicted that the Cupertino, Calif. company would report earnings of $1.08 per diluted share on $7.9 billion in revenue, according to a Thomson Reuters survey. Instead, Apple says it earned $1.33 per share… Continue Reading
Smartphones gobbling up ever more market share
The mobile web is looking a bit smarter lately. AdMob, a mobile ad platform we’ve covered before, put out its metrics for August, and it’s clear that smartphones are quickly becoming mainstream. Drawing on data from the over 5,000 mobile websites the company serves, the numbers point towards smartphones both in the US and worldwide continuing to become more prevalent, but with very different manufacturers dominating internationally versus domestically.
Within the US, smartphones accounted for 23.7… Continue Reading
Charlie Miller: making his name in Mac hacking
Charlie Miller and his team at Independent Security Evaluators managed to hack a MacBook Air in just two minutes yesterday at the CanSec West security conference. He won $10,000 for the feat in the PWN2OWN contest in Vancouver.
I’ve had a chance to interview Miller on a couple of occasions. He won fame as the first hacker to discover flaws in the iPhone. And he also figured out a way to hack into Second Life and… Continue Reading
Apple announces big news for the iPhone: Microsoft Exchange support, an SDK, games, and a $100 million development fund
Apple held an event today at its Cupertino headquarters to go over its iPhone “software roadmap”. While many expected to hear information about the software development kit (SDK) for the device, there were actually quite a few more significant announcements.
The biggest news?
– Microsoft Exchange is available on the iPhone
– The SDK is ready, but there won’t be any consumer iPhone updates to use it until June
– Games are making their first appearance on the iPhone… Continue Reading