iPhone App Store Tops 2,000,000,000 Downloads

Apple’s iTunes App Store has hit yet another milestone: two billion apps downloaded since the Store hung out its digital shingle on July 11, 2008. The news came in an Apple announcement which also noted that the store’s customers now include over 50 million iPhone and iPod touch owners worldwide – in 77 countries, to [...]

iPhone apps top 100,000

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 2009: Hottest App Store Games of the Year

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 [...]