Overnight, the App Store reached its new milestone of 10 Billion downloaded apps! Launching in 2008, the App Store has been extremely successful since day one, taking just over two and half years to reach 10 Billion downloaded apps. For comparison, it took the iTunes Music Store almost seven years from its 2003 launch to...
Here we go again. The Rovio team is raking it in with themed versions of their smash hit, Angry Birds. We've seen Halloween and Christmas versions so far, but get ready for the Valentine's Day version soon to be released on February 14th. I bet they'll get over a million downloads again, easily. In the...
A 14-year-old Canadian has reached Apple's "New and Noteworthy" app list for utilities in both Japan and Canada after creating an app called "The Universal Alarm Clock". Rony Besprozvanny, our young Canadian developer, has managed to secure himself 1,500 downloads in the first four days since the app was released on January 15 2011, shooting...
Currently the race to 10 billion iPhone app downloads will result in a winner of a $10,000 iTunes gift card. Apple has also listed a page within iTunes that shows the all-time top free and paid iPhone apps. Preview of the Top Paid iPhone apps: Preview of the Top Free iPhone apps: Also listed on...
There have been some tweaks released, in the jailbreak community, to enable AirPlay to work with 3rd party apps. With the beta release of iOS 4.3, we now know that Apple plans to open up this feature to developers, so that they can add it to there own apps. The are still some cool apps...
How many iOS devices do you own? With each device comes downloads from the App Store. Reaching 10 billion app downloads very soon, the App Store has been nothing short of a success story. Asymco.com breaks down just how many apps are downloaded per device sold: The number of apps downloaded for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch is...
Today Apple launched a new 10 Billion App Countdown promotion to mark the upcoming 10 Billionth downloaded App! The user who downloads the 10 billionth app gets a $10,000 iTunes gift card! As of today, nearly 10 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store worldwide. Which is almost as amazing as the apps...
Today Google announced the launch of a new application called "Google Places" for iOS devices. The app allows users to search for nearby places and then further allows users to personalize the results using a ratings system. In case you aren't familiar with Google Places, it lets you quickly search for places nearby and personalizes...
This week, a few of my colleagues were showing me a new game they found in the iPhone App Store called "Cubicle Golf". It did not seem like much at first, but after downloading it and giving it a shot, it was actually pretty solid. Cubicle Golf by Plow Digital, LLC Cubicle Golf is mini-golf in...
Another day, and yet another messaging app for iPhone users. Some popular cross platform 'SMS replacement' apps are Ping!, WhatsApp and Kik. Most people coming from Blackberrys to iPhones can't stop ranting about how they miss BBM. One notable feature is group chat, which hasn't been implemented well on iOS until possibly now. Enter stage...
Update 1: VLC is now available via Cydia. According to the latest tweet sent out developer Ryan Petrich. Just add his beta repo, http://rpetri.ch/repo to your Sources within Cydia to download VLC. Thanks Ryan! VLC was released for the iPhone in late October of 2010. Soon after, there was confirmation VLC was going to be...
It's safe to say that 2010 has been the year of the Angry Birds. Rovio has released Angry Birds Free, which is different from Angry Birds Lite. This free version of Angry Birds includes 12 levels not available in the full version. So if you're an addict, and want more Angry Birds this is the...
