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Apple’s 2008 Top iPhone Apps section of iTunes
VentureBeat —
So maybe you just got an iPhone or iPod touch, or maybe you’re going to get one very soon for the holidays. With something like 10,000 applications out there in Apple’s App Store, it’s basically impossible to know which ones to get. Sure, there are the most popular ones right now which are clearly seen in the store, but those leave out a lot of great ones that have been popular in the past. Luckily, Apple has just rolled out a Top Apps section in iTunes as part of its iTunes 2008 year-end section.
This section features dozens on apps broken into two categories: Free and Paid. Within these two categories you’ll find the ...
iTunes shows off the best of 2008
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: iTS, iTunes
Apple has created a "Best of 2008" [iTunes link] section in the iTunes Store. On this page, Apple lets everyone know what the top-downloaded TV Shows, Music, Movies, Apps, Podcasts, and Audiobooks are. Among the top paid iPhone applications are Koi ...
Apple's Favorite iPhone Apps (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... photos, etc.
FingerSound: Create "interesting" and "wild" sounds.
Flights: Called "Flight Tracker" in iTunes. Airline schedules, flight tracking.
French: French-English dictionary.
German: German-English dictionary.
iGolf: Motion sensor-powered golf game.
KICKMap: NYC subway map.
Koi Pond: Watch fish swim in a pond setting, poke them to make them swim ...
20 Great Apps For Your New iPhone Or iPod Touch (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... Koi Pond, $1: Watch beautiful fish swim around your screen, and scare them away with a touch. Great for your kids or if you've had too much egg nog. ...
Apple: Almost 1 Billion iPhone Apps Served, and counting…
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
If you had any doubts about the iPhone AppStore’s furious success over the past year, you should know that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is well on its way to its 1 billionth iPhone application download. Apple is making a big deal, as it should, about its 1 billion iPhone app downloads. In fact, Apple will be celebrating its 1 billionth app download by giving the lucky downloader a prize pack that includes a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule and a MacBook Pro!
The iPhone maker has posted a downloads-counter that has only picked up speed since Apple announced its promotion. The iTunes App Store is apparently being hammered by ...
Apple Hits 1 Billion App Store Downloads!
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) was expected to serve up their 1 Billionth (with a capital B) App Store download today, and lo and behold, Apple has announced that they’ve officially seen 1 billion iPhone/iPod Touch applications downloaded from their iTunes App Store! In less than a full year of existence, Apple and the iPhone have managed to make mobile applications as commonplace as an iTunes music purchase, and the App Store’s popularity continues to grow.
The total tally of iPhone applications in the iPhone AppStore was estimated to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 25,000 in March 2009. And, ...
Appiphilia: M is for the million apps you gave her for Mother's Day
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... (99 cents), one of the top 50 paid apps right now, brings the beauty and serenity of nature to your hand. You can add different layers of sound such as rainstorms, frogs and birds. Just listening to it is relaxing. Tap the water, and it responds -- you hear a splash, see a ripple and the fish swims away. Mom can give herself a timeout to recenter herself. ...
Guatemala: Accidental Snapshot
Boing Boing —
(I'm traveling and blogging from Guatemala right now, so expect a number of posts from me specific to this region. - XJ).
I've spent much of the past week in a K'iche' Maya village in the highlands. One of the children there took this snapshot on my iPhone by accident, I'm pretty sure. I love it. We were gathered around the wood hearth, trying to stay warm, I was watching the women slap tortillas from corn they grew just outside. I'd offered the kids my iPhone (a magical and foreign device for their small hands) and was showing them how to play around with some apps. They learned quickly. Their favorite apps, btw, were: Eno's "Bloom," ...
App Store Anniversary: One Year Later [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network —
This past Saturday, July 11, marked the one year anniversary of the opening of the iPhone App Store. In that time Apple has simultaneously redefined the expectations of what a mobile phone can do, and fundamentally changed the way that software for smartphones is delivered to consumers.
There are now about 58,000 applications available through ...
10 iPhone Apps That Need a Push to Use the Accelerometer
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
There's no denying that the iPhone owes a large part of its success to the swift, rabid adoption of the accelerometer by the vast majority of the App Store’s 65,000+ apps. With an array of uses far beyond anything Apple ever dreamed possible, iPhone’s tilt controls have sparked a revolution of their own and raised the bar for mobile apps across all platforms. Of course, there are plenty of apps out there that limit their accelerometer use--or ignore it completely--but who are we to judge? It’s not like we spend our days trolling the App Store just so we can boil down tens of thousands of games and utilities to 10 or so that we think need improvement. So, here’s our list ...
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