Apple today announced that more than 25 billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store by users of the more than 315 million iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices worldwide. The 25 billionth app — a free version of “Where’s My Water?” — was downloaded by Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China. As the winner of the App Store Countdown to 25 Billion Apps, Chunli Fu will receive a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card.
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Wired Magazine reports that Newsstand, a new feature of iOS 5, is “hitting it big with traditional media publishers thanks to its windfall delivery of new digital subscriptions.” Newsstand keeps all app subscriptions for newspapers, magazines, and journals in one convenient place on the iOS 5 home screen and makes it easy to shop for new reading material. Wired cites Conde Nast and The New York Times among publishers seeing large spikes in app subscriptions since Newsstand launched.
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Apple today announced that the Mac App Store is now open for business with more than a thousand free and paid apps. The Mac App Store brings the revolutionary App Store experience to the Mac, so you can find great new apps, buy them using your iTunes account, and download and install them in just one step. The Mac App Store is available for Snow Leopard users through Software Update as part of Mac OS X v10.6.6.
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Apple announced that the Mac App Store will open for business on Thursday, January 6. By bringing the revolutionary App Store experience to Mac OS X, the Mac App Store makes discovering, installing, and updating Mac apps easier than ever. The Mac App Store will be available in 90 countries at launch and will feature paid and free apps in categories like Education, Games, Graphics and Design, Lifestyle, Productivity, and Utilities.
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Apple today announced that iOS 4.2, the latest version of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, is available today for download for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. iOS 4.2 brings over 100 new features from iOS 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 to iPad, including Multitasking, Folders, Unified Inbox, Game Center, AirPlay, and AirPrint. “iOS 4.2 makes the iPad a completely new product, just in time for the holiday season,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Once again, the iPad with iOS 4.2 will define the target that other tablets will aspire to, but very few, if any, will ever be able to hit.”
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Apple’s secrets revealed… free!
Apple’s biggest asset has always been its marketing, and today, much to Microsoft’s excitement, a book focussing on that very subject has been released online and for free.
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Goldman: Here Are the Winners of Apple’s iPad Revolution
We thought our loyal ranks of readers would be interested in Goldman Sachs analyst assessments of what companies — besides Apple — stands to benefit from the growth of the iPad.
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Optus, Telstra release Aussie data plan pricing for Apple’s revolutionary iPad 3G
Optus and Telstra will offer month-by-month 3G plans for the Apple iPad starting at…
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Motorola may have posted an unexpected profit in the first quarter of this year, but Apple has dethroned them as the largest U.S. maker of cell phones.
Forbes is reporting on the latest cell phone industry news out of the U.S., which shows that iPhone maker Apple Inc. is now poised as the largest domestic maker of cell phones, having sold 8.8 million devices in the first quarter of this year. Schaumburg, Illinois-based Motorola dropped to the number two spot with 8.5 million — which doesn’t sound so bad, until you realize the company currently offers 117 different models of cell phones versus Apple’s two iPhone models, according to Motorola’s own U.S. website.
It wasn’t all that long ago — four years to be exact — that Motorola was the undisputed king of the U.S. cell phone industry, having sold 46.1 million handsets in the first quarter of that year, largely led by the wildly popular Razr.
The news isn’t all bad for Motorola this year, however: Wall Street wasn’t really expecting the company to post a profit in the first quarter, but they did indeed, with profit of $69 million on total revenue of $5.04 billion. In the same quarter a year ago, Motorola lost $231 million, so in that light, it’s a major improvement indeed.
Motorola’s comeback strategy has largely been focused on smartphones such as the Android-powered Droid and overall, Motorola sold 2.3 million such devices in the first three months of this year, compared with their own expectations of less than two million.
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Apple’s IPad Is a ‘Winner,’ ‘Game Changer,’ Reviewers Say
April 1 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. ’s iPad touch-screen tablet is a winning product that threatens to replace laptops as the dominant format for personal computers, reviewers said.
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