Apple has built a massive and fast-growing $16 billion annual revenue stream in digital content alone, Apple analyst Horace Dediu says.
The cost of acquiring loyal users for iPhone and iPad apps shot up by almost a third last month as marketers started the big Christmas season push.
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Surprising no one, Google Maps for the iPhone is insanely popular.
You know the old story about statistics and liars, right? Statistics lie, and liars use statistics, or so the old saw says. There's a good reason for that: statistics are so damn easy to lie with. Even when you don't mean to.
According to a just-released study from London-based ABI Research, iPhone had only 29 percent of app downloads in the second quarter of 2012, compared to 47 percent for Android.
Every day, 46 million mobile applications are downloaded from Apple’s App Store, according to Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers partner Mary Meeker.
Meeker spoke today about the ways Silicon Valley is changing almost everything we use in a staggering way …
After social mobile application Oink was shut down on Wednesday, the company behind the app, Milk, put up a “download your data” option so that users to grab their content one last time. It seemed, however, you could grab just …
Apple‘s mobile products are getting a lot of love from China. The government-owned operator hit 15 million iPhone activations today despite the fact that it is unable to sell the phone legally.
China Mobile says its 3G service is incompatible …
CNET Download.com‘s proprietary software installer downloads “special offer” toolbars and software that some businesses are calling malware. The company has made changes to let people opt out, but according to security software company Nmap, that isn’t enough.
Since Download.com released …
Apple is looking for a way to merge multiple Apple IDs, since developers have found having multiple sign-ins cause problems on iOS 5 and iCloud, according to MacRumors.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for official comment.
The …
Apple’s App Store, the store in which iPod, iPhone, and iPad users buy and download applications, has surpassed 500,000 approved applications according to a combined estimate by Chomp, 148apps, and Chillingo.
Since its debut in 2008, a year after the …
I hope Apple announces its new plans for digital music purchases soon, because I’m getting tired of the constant speculation. This time around, it seems Apple is negotiating deals with record companies to allow customers to download music they’ve purchased …
