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Apple: More than 10 Mn apps downloaded
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 17 July 2008, 14:18 IST
Bangalore: In another show of their obsession with iPhone, users of Apple's smartphone and the iPod Touch downloaded more than 10 million applications from the company's new App Store, says Apple. It happened despite the embarrassing issue that iPhone activation delays lasted over the weekend, reported Informationweek.
The show demonstrated that the customers see the iPhone and Touch (which is an iPhone without voice communications) as personal pocket computers, and not just as a phone and portable media player, respectively. Thus, Apple is now all set to usher in a new era in computing when people leave their PCs and carry mobile Internet devices for connecting to the Web on the move.
If one consider the fact that Apple sold one million 3G iPhones over the weekend, he could reach a conclusion that individual customers downloaded multiple applications from the App Store, which was launched the day before version 2.0 of the iPhone was released on Friday. Along with the new iPhone, Apple simultaneously made the smartphone's operating system available as an upgrade to older iPhones and the Touch, giving both the same functionality, including access to the App Store.
As Apple is positioning the iPhone not as a mobile phone with Web access, but as an Internet-connected touch-screen computer that happens to make phone calls also, the App Store is pivotal in this transition, because useful software is what drives the sale of computers, not fancy hardware, say analysts.
The App Store was launched with more than 500 applications built by third-party developers. As of Monday, that number had grown to more than 800, with more than 200 available at no charge and 90 percent of the paid software costing less than $10.
"The App Store launch was a 'grand slam', with a staggering 10 million applications downloaded in just three days," Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said in a statement.
