Apple's App Store breaks 100,000 apps
By Paul Miller 
posted November 4th 2009 9:47AM
posted November 4th 2009 9:47AM
posted November 4th 2009 9:47AM
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http://windowsmobilesoftware.net/
There's about 28,000 on this site alone.
100,000 apps and 2 billion downloads - but no signal, no 3g network :D
No support for multiple email addresses
While many like to make fun of the many useless Apps found in the store (useless to you, may not be other others). What they can't make fun of is Apple's strategy of building excitement for developers and users alike, while at the same time strengthening their ecosystem and running away with the market. Microsoft knows all to well how this works:
Developers! Developers! Developers!
If they were that excited about developers, then you would be also able to develop on a system other then a Mac
**Cough** Android **Cough**
To all you asking how many of the 100K apps are actually useful, please define useful. A fart app can be useful to me and not to you. Same with just about every app. One man's crap is another man's treasure.
Congrats Apple for the compelling platform you have managed to create and others are trying to emulate!
All well and good, but most of the useful iPhone apps are still only on Cedia.
*Cydia
being an iPhone owner, why am I not excited?
first:
it's a huge number even if only 1-2% is usefull. that also goes for 90% of the windows stuff which we can download for "free" over Internet. But the good thing with the app store is that everybody has an incentive to start programming something and lets be honest evey programmer starts with a small "fart"-like app since they are very rudimental to do but essential to get a feeling for programming...
second:
winmo users are just jealous since microsoft didn't manage to make internet access as easy and as popular as apple with the iphone. just admit it even Nokia did admit it!
third:
Winmo exists since ages but they did not have the smart idea to offer a central store like place where everybody could download their free/pay stuff. it was always distributed over the net by each individual vendor and that was annoying to be honest. you couldn't just brows through a catalog to find your stuff. Imagine if MS would have implemented that before 2007 then the situation would be different and not every second disillusioned WinMo/Windows user would be pissed that they are selling apps every second...
fifth:
I'm a winmo 6.1 user and not a mac user so I'm also kind a pissed but I like my device so i'm fine with the situation and also happyy for apple for their success!
I really hope that Android will have a similar hype like Apples Iphone since it is a really interesting platform. I could think about handing in phone for a android 2.0 device sometime next year.
Cannabalt is a Drug must be banned from the App Store (BTW 6448m is my Best Score :P )
6848 for me
But this only game was pretty easy (ie. no huge robots falling for the sky)
If there is one thing that can be said about iPhone is it's made to appeal to the masses. Serves all black white Asian Indian Latin men women kids gays straight jocks nerds emo professionals college kids ganstas cops etc. Question what other phone can truly say they have appeal to all. Jobs just spreads peace n love. Welcomes all rejects CEOs etc Seve one serve all.
Typical itard bullshit.
Typical 10minutehobo^2 bullshit, only it smells worse.
reminds me of this quote: "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black"
Too bad even with all these apps you can only run one at a time. And what is the deal with all those fricking icons?
Uhhh right now I am running Textfree(texting people) and playing Bloons TD 3
Oh and its totally seamless...and yes I am using a iPhone 3g jailbroken with firmware 3.1.2.
Google "backgrounder". That should help you if you are trying to multi-task...
Continue to hate apple and continue to watch their profits increase. The ignorance of people who think its aimed at them. You realize how many people walk into an at&t store and dont even know what an iPhone is.. let me tell you. ALOT.
99,900 are lame and useless. I thought coming from the Ovi
store it would be a revelation; not so. That said, the ones that
are cool and the internet radio apps I love.
Quantity is not Quality.
Is that why you have so many siblings?
j/k - I'm sure you're a decent person in RL
if Android or the Palm Pre had the same level or kind of apps as the iPhone it would make a big differences.
At this Point in Time its all about the Apps all 3 OSs " Android, Palm Pre, iPhone" are good in there own way and they all bring things that any of them can copy from one another or just do better. but the iPhone has the apps to make it more appealing to get over the other two.
No the pre is still a crap phone big difference.
@geekgirl
Thats funny because I sold my iPhone 3G to buy a Pre and guess what - I like the Pre better. Doubtful that you even own a Pre just a moronic troll...
Just add 50k Fart aps and 40k Flashlight aps and Andriod is there!
Remove the "k" and your number sounds better...I counted the number of those apps and youre off by thousands. Next time research before posting :)
objective-c sucks! a lot.
time will tell...
@ DC Mike
The App Store is only a year and few months old, it still have ways to go, bugs to iron out, and trash to throw out just like any other new fast growing business or venture. But the idea and goal for Apple here is to generate buzz, pull in more developers, strengthen the ecosystem and brand, and build a significant lead on its competition. If the number were 400,000 Apps sold, they would take it in order to do so. Again no difference from what they did with iTunes and iPods and look at there market lead today. They cut the number in half now, they piss off developers who would only run and help other platforms grow even faster.
You have to remember.. this is the friggen app store.. Platforms like Blackberry, Winmo and Android, you can install applications that do not exist in the appstore.. Blackberry could have 1000000000 applications out there that are directly download via the browser or install the jad via desktop manager and not in the appworld...
It all comes down to apple won't let you install apps that aren't approved in the app store so the appstore reflects all avalible apps that are official supported for the iPhone which is kinda a joke..
no app beats www.useaswallpaper.com (free original iphone wallpapers)
i cant believe all these babies on this site saying fart app this or that.. for every fart app theres 100 good apps. its clearly evident u bash anything u dont have, so really, stop crying so much its annoying to read these winmo people trying to justify themselfs.
chill bro you clearly dont have an iphone. multitasking is just fine, and my phone lasts the whole day, unlike any android or pre where i gotta charge it 10 times a day.
Sturgeon's Law applies. 90% of the apps are crud.
Especially now that there's app generator companies that will create anything for $500.
Pretty soon, you're going to need an app to find the right app search engine for your needs.
Alright, I love the iPhone,
but...
Make the Bluetooth work well! I invested in a pair of Motorola S9-HD's and the ff/rew/play/pause/call buttons don't work on this!
Apple... If you're reading this... Please.
My tip is to jump way BEFORE the end of each building,
seems stupid but by doing it you will allways be able to re-jump
just after landing on the next one. Try it.
So if you take out all the apps that are nothing but a pointless marketing tool, a racing game that works by tiling the Iphone, a calculator IE "if your too dumb to times your check for food *1.15 then divide by 4 to equal the amount 4 people should pay" and finally if your too dumb to use google or wikipedia
whats the number of apps?
100,000 apps... awesome. Thank you Apple for revolutionizing the industry.
However, with useless app comments aside... I still don't think they should count any app available in 10 different languages as 10 apps. It's still just 1 app. with options.
Now if it's a useless app in 10 different languages... then that really pisses me off. It just makes finding the good apps that much harder.
not bad considering that only 1% are good or useful, why would you want more than 1,000 apps
Yeah and that number is artificially inflated by moron-ware from companies like Brighthouse Lab which has approximately 2500 apps in the store each of which isn't worth downloading. In the last few days Brighthouse Labs has uploaded another 300 apps which are all either slider puzzle games with one image or news suckers aimed at one celebrity.
Hey Apple! Throw this total waste of space out of the App Store too. Maybe you want them there to inflate the App Store numbers?
Apple has lots of apps and they will convince people who don't know any better to start spreading the "Dude iPhone has over 100k apps" word around town and they will be happy.
The fact that many are demos, repeats, useless or books isn't really the important part is it? The fact of the matter is iPhone has 100k of stuff available and others don't. Android has about 11,000 apps and I would venture to say a similar % of those are like the useless iPhone ones.
Apple knows its not about quality in this particular bragging/marketing ploy....they know they can convince people that 100k is an amazing thing no matter if a user will only find 3 useful apps or 30
99,995 fart style apps, 5 good ones :)
And none of them let me use bluetooth to get files of my phone or use a keyboard!
I don't understand the significance of having 100,000 apps to choose from, it there are 100 apps for the same thing you would never be able to try them all to determine which was best for you. Personally I would think that if there were, for example, 5000 apps available that I could probably find a good app for everything I wanted to do with my phone without having to search through the other 95,000 apps. That said I can tell you that the search in the Android app store is pathetic.
See, iphone fans? Choice in apps is good. So is choice in carriers, phones, cpu's, UI's, etc.
Android/Droid's strategy is to first target computer-types because they will develop 100k more apps for Android. Casual people make for lousy developers which is one reason why there's a lot of junk in the app store. On the other hand, Flash is a really big deal for those casual users.
crApplications, all of them
[Shazam excluded]
i understand the need to hype 100,000 to strengthen their ecosystem. for only a year+ that is a huge number. congrats apple.
but the main problem i have with the apps (fart apps and needle-in-a-haystack searching aside), is that too many of them should just be mobile websites. for example, i downloaded the bofa app and its just the bofa mobi site but in a pretty iphone-styled app. why not just make the mobi site look nicer and all phone users could take advantage of it? another example are the mini-games and movie-hyping apps. those could all be replaced by mobile phone websites if only the iphone supported flash.
bottom line: webclips and flash could eliminate more than half the apps.
Having 100,000 apps is about as useful as having an 18 inch penis. Only about a third is really useful and the rest just gets in the way.
c'mon guyzzz ! useful apps, not useful apps... it's not the case! what is the case then, daddy? well, son, BUSSINESS! some guy from wherever on Earth pays apple $$$ (i don't remember exactly, i guess it was 99$ or 199$) for the developer's SDK. Then the guy creates say a fart app. And ofcourse Apple will have to let this guy sell his stupid human degradation app, simply because it's not porn or race abuse or whatever, so that the guy would be happy -> :) & Apple would be happy twice -> :)) only Christianity might not be happy, but then, who r they to say, in a pagan America ( example: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/04/eops-i24r3portable-speaker-is-mad-bad-and-waterproof/ )
Well, wouldn't it be twice the present number?
Simple math my friend, simple math.
Well the point about mentioning how many Apps you've got is just creating more awareness. Apple are genius at many things including making great products and telling people about them. Apple will continue to declare figures as they grow which they undoubtedly will because the iPhone /Touch is such a great platform not to mention the rumours of other impending hardware configurations such as a tablet or dedicated games console. This will only drive more sales in a market which is expected to be worth many Billion over the coming years.
As developer I'm very glad to have this platform and also believe that although there are many rubbish products, quality products do make their way to the top.
My first App ITGO - Interval Trainer GO has been featured as a staff favorite in the App store for the past 3 weeks in the US, Canada and many other territories. I think it's an example of a quality App for a quality platform.