Apple has paid out $4 billion to iOS developers
22/02/2012 |
There’s no getting around the fact that Android as a platform continues to see significant growth. And while Google certainly likes to brag about the number of daily Android activations, the fact remains that developers are still choosing Apple’s iOS platform over Android. The end result is that apps often debut on the iTunes App Store before they do on Android, and indeed, some apps, such as Smule’s library of popular music-based applications, don’t show up on Android...
iOS app store reaches 15 billion download milestone
Apple today announced via a press release that over 15 billion apps have been downloaded from the iOS app store since its inception in July of 2008. All told, the iOS app store houses over 425,000 apps with 100,000+ of them being dedicated iPad apps."In just three years, the revolutionary Ap...
Top 200 Apple App Store apps generate 4 times more cash than entire Google Android Marketplace
Just the top 200 most-grossing App Store entries generate 4X the revenue of everything in the Android Marketplace...
Mac App Store volume pales in comparison to iOS app store
When Apple first introduced the Mac App Store, they released a promotional video wherein Scott Forstall explained that the Mac app store would usher in the same sort of developer goldrush that accompanied the roll-out of the iOS app store.To call that an overstatement would be, well, an understat...
iOS developers now have less than 24 hours to submit their apps for the holidays
With countless iOS devices being handed out this Christmas...
Mac App Store is a "very big deal" - Evernote CEO
“It's a very big deal [...] We initially thought that since so much of our user base was coming from mobile, that was the key distribution platform. But maybe it isn't mobile that's important, maybe it's the well-designed app store.” - So said Evernote CEO Phil Libin in the wake of im...
iTunes now touts over 100,000 dedicated iPad apps
By Luis Estrada:Even more than the smartphone market, a bustling app store is a requirement to compete in the burgeoning tablet market. And in that regard, absolutely no one can compete with Apple.Earlier today, MacStories pointed out that the number of dedicated iPad apps now surpasses 100,000. ...
What Is A UDID And Why Is Apple Killing Apps That Track Them? [Feature]
This unique string of alphanumeric text attached to every iPhone and iPad is the source of a lot of privacy concerns. Many of us feel a deep personal connection with our iPhones, and small wonder: the average person’s smartphone knows more about them than their spouse or significant other. ...
New "Project Spartan" initiative from Facebook looks to circumvent iOS App Store
Given how similar Apple and Facebook are to the extent they both want to wield absolute control over their products, the latest rumor emanating out of Silicon Valley isn’t all that surprising.TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook is working hard on a new secretive initiative dubbed “P...
Groupon Adopts UDID Alternative That Could Become Standard For Developers
AppRedeem is hoping iOS devs will follow Groupon's lead and adopt its UDID alternative. Just six months after announcing that developers must stop accessing a device’s unique deviceidentifier(UDID) within their iOS apps, Apple put its rule into practice last week amid increasing privacy...
RIM removes ability for BlackBerry PlayBook users to sideload apps
Funny how many of the things Apple’s iPhone used to get chided for – lack of a removable battery, no Flash support – are now becoming standardized across all platforms.In the most recent example, RIM is removing the ability for BlackBerry PlayBook users to sideload apps. Under t...
