Posts Tagged ‘App Store’

Distimo Looks Back at 2010, Most Money in In-App Payments

January 10th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

The year 201 is over and so, Distimo has created a report on what 2010 has brought us. One of the things the report tells us is that the 300 top free apps in the US are generating 3 million downloads every day.

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Apple Launches Mac App Store, Hackers Ruin It

January 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Last Friday, Apple launched the new App Store for Mac. What the company didn’t expect though was that the store was hacked only hours after opening resulting in many users freely downloading the apps from their store.

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Dorling Kindersley and Handango Open Up Shop

December 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

It seems book publishers are in a race for the heart and wallets of the smartphone owners visiting them. Book store Dorling Kindersley announced the launch of their app store DK App Shop.

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App Farms Continue to Abuse the App Store?

December 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

According to a post on The Next Web, app farms are hiding the App Store yet again. In the US paid business apps chart, malicious apps seem to be pulling in revenues like crazy.

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Acer Reconfirms App Store Plans

November 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Back in August, we already reported that Acer had plans to launch an app store for their new line of smartphones. Yesterday, the company explained their plans for ‘Alive’.

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HTC to Launch an App Store!?

November 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

According to a story on the Financial Times, HTC is seems to be set on starting up their own App Store. Of course, they have their own channel on Windows Marketplace, but this step would give them control over Android app sales.

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Cut The Rope Passes 2 Million Downloads

October 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

EA’s first press release for Chillingo landed in our mailbox today. The company announced that Chillingo’s recently launched Cut The Rope game has passed 2 million downloads on the App Store.

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BlackBerry App World Browsable Online

October 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

RIM has launched an online storefront to help consumers that prefer their apps to be purchased through a PC (or mac) instead of the mobile app store.

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Apple Announced App Store & FaceTime for MacOSX

October 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

iOS developers that know a thing or two about development for the OSX platform should pay attention as Apple has announced to be opening an App Store for Mac owners.

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App Store Breaches Through 300.000 Apps, How Many have Gone?

October 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

On September first, Steve Jobs announced the App Store passed a quarter million apps. Yesterday, the App Store broke through 300K apps. In other words, 50.000 new apps in about six weeks!

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