Posts Tagged ‘Apps’

App Catalog Reaches 1K Apps This Month

January 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Palm's App Catalog has nearly reached a milestone of one thousand apps and games, hardly a year after Palm released the first WebOS based mobile phone.

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Samsung’s Market Survey Results

December 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

With the release of Bada, Samsung also exposed the results of some consumer research they did. Samsung’s survey was held under feature phone owners in France, the UK and Italy.

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AppStore Hits 100.000, Officially!

November 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A few weeks ago, we reported that Apple reched 100.000 apps (depending on the counting source). Last night, Apple confirmed they indeed passed the 100.000 line.

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AppStoreHQ Lists App by Twitter Popularity

November 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

iPhone users have gained yet another method to discover popular apps on the App Store. The website AppStoreHQ is now listing mobile games and apps based on their popularity on Twitter.

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App Store Passes 100K Apps & Games

October 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

A new milestone has been reached by Apple as the company has now processed 100.000 apps in total (the word saturation buzzes inside my head), but there is something funny about this bit of news.

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Apple on iPhone Updates and Stats

September 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Tonight, Steve Jobs took the stage at the Apple event and outlined the company's plans to update the current iPhone firmware as well as some details about the App Store.

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WebOS Apps Go Commercial

August 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Palm has announced that is has started to accept paid apps for their WebOS aimed App Store. This way, mobile game developers can finally start earning money from Palm Pre owners.

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Apps Will Come for Zune

August 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: XNA | No Comments »

According to a blog called Daring Fireball, Microsoft has started to contact iPhone developers in the hope to get them to port their apps to Microsoft's Zune HD device.

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Android Coming to Ubunto

May 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Though Ubunto is one of the most well known Linux distributions out there, Canonical (the commercial party behind Ubunto) has announced that the Linux distribution will be upgraded to support Google’s Android apps.

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Apple Limits Distribution and Development Freedom

April 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

As a direct result of alternative stores that sell apps for the iPhone, Apple has started to re-align its developer program licensing agreement with their development community.