Posts Tagged ‘ app store ’

One billion downloads in App Store – some numbers

On April 23rd, the Apple App Store crossed its one billion downloads treshold, only 9 months after its launch. The most popular downloads are games and entertainment. - 79% of iPhone users have downloaded a game from the App Store - 78% entertainment - 57% weather - 55% music The most popular app was Tapulous’s [ READ MORE ]

Mastercard launches ATM Hunter app

American iPhone users can now find the nearest ATM cash machine, thanks to the ATM Hunter, an application by Mastercard which has become available on the Apple App Store. The application uses the iPhone localisation technology to track the whereabouts of the user and to give him information on the ATM machines available in the [ READ MORE ]

RIM introduces BlackBerry App World

In an attempt to counter the successful Apple App Store, RIM has now launched BlackBerry App World, the online store where you can download a broad range of applications for your BlackBerry smartphone.  At the moment, about 1.000 applications are available for consumers in the US, UK and Canada.  Other international territories will soon follow.  [ READ MORE ]

What did 2008 bring for Mobile?

As the end of year period allows some catching up on reading industry news, I came across an interesting year overview by FierceMobile, which nicely sums up the importance of the past year for the mobile industry. 1/ The iPhone pushes the Mobile Internet to the next level The iPhone was first launched in 2007, [ READ MORE ]

Saved by iPhone Fake Calls

Last month (Oct 22nd), Steve Jobs announced that the Apple App Store has passed the mark of 200 million downloads.  The App Store, which was launched only 100 days earlier, offers free and paying applications for the Apple iPhone.  With over 10 million iPhones 3G sold this year, that’s about 20 apps per iPhone user [ READ MORE ]

10 million downloads in iPhone App Store

Last Thursday, a day before the iPhone 3G took the world by storm, Apple introduced the iPhone App Store, where iPhone users can download “applications in every category, from games to business, education to entertainment, finance to health and fitness, productivity to social networking.”   Check the Apple site for more info. After the first weekend, Apple announced [ READ MORE ]

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