iTunes App Trick

Less than six weeks after announcing that downloads from its iTunes App store had topped two billion, Apple on Wednesday let it be known that its online collection has now topped one hundred thousand apps. In a statement, Apple SVP of marketing Phil Schiller tossed a not-so-subtle jab at Cupertino’s Palm Pre and Android competitors, [...]

iTunes Rewind reveals the hottest games of 2009, which are divided into two groups, highest rated and top sellers. I’m glad Apple made this distinction between highest rated and top sellers. With such a strong focus on the top 10 listings, which tracks number of sells as opposed to rating, games like Spider: The Secret [...]

iPhone game maker Tapulous now earns nearly $1 million per month in sales from the App Store. It’s just another example of the store’s incredible success — which allegedly even caught Apple off guard. In September, Apple announced that total downloads on the App Store had topped 2 billion. In profiling the success of the [...]