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Microsoft: Mobile App Store

The world of mobile phones under siege. After Apple and Samsung even Microsoft is ready with its App Store, a shop that sold and intends to distribute all applications for smartphones running Windows Mobile. And Nokia will launch a world dedicated to Symbian next week. The news comes from Wall Street Journal, according to which Microsoft has decided to launch an App Store on the one opened first by Apple for its iPhone last year. It will be officially announced to the CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, in his speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. What Ballmer will be a keynote important, according to financial daily newspaper among the list of innovations that boil in the pot in the laboratories of Microsoft, in addition to the new version of Windows Mobile, the 6.5 that was further delayed and will not practice until the light after the summer, there is even a smartphone built its headquarters in Redmond. The move by Microsoft to open a store on-line is significant of the state of tension that surrounds the phone market and in particular smartphone: Nokia on February 16 will present the new portal that has just finished developing and will be allocated its distribution and sale of applications for its smartphones and all those with a Symbian operating system. And Samsung has taken the plunge, launching a few days ago its Samsung Mobile Applications where you can download, also free, many applications for its smartphones that are based on Windows Mobile or Symbian S60. Not to mention that it is already on the Google Android Market, which is the “shop” operating system from Google, fnora restricted to G1 distributed by T-Mobile and soon in Italy, also by Tim and Vodafone.

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Hack a game to protest the policy of the App Store

Those responsible for the game Wack’em All! are so pleased by the welcome that is having the same as upset because the number of users who use it, which far exceeds the number of downloads of the application. This is “thanks” to a hacker who had hacked the game to protest the policy regarding the Apple store applications.

The reason for the protest of the hacker is to the company’s refusal to put demo versions of games, and that requires the buyer to gain user application with the risk that is not to their liking. According to him, this policy causes anger and disappointment to many buyers because they feel cheated when you buy an application that have not previously been tested. More »

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300 million downloads App Store

From Cupertino recently came the news that App Store would have exceeded the 300 million downloads since July, has opened its doors for the first time. And that has forever changed the world of mobile telephony, an application at a time.

The amount of software on the store is impressive, more than 10,000 applications are currently in the catalog, and equally impressive is the number of downloads have occurred so far, that is over 300 million in just 21 weeks. To make two accounts are approximately 2 million applications downloaded every day.

Of course, a not download these must belong to casual users, but if we think that the average cost of an application for iPhone is about $ 3.06 (2.3 euros), this means that up to now the total revenue derived from store would likely be below 1 billion dollars. Alley Insider estimates that the figure is closer to $ 300 million, of which Apple holds 30%.

It would be interesting to know how many people are actually buying * *, these applications, but it is a fact that the results achieved are not at all bad for a platform that has existed for less than 4 months.

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the App Store has passed the 10 000 applications

Apple does not trumpeted on rooftops, but its App Store has just passed the milestone of 10 000 applications. Recall that the App Store is an online store attached to the Apple Store that will buy and / or download software for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Within six months after its opening, the App Store therefore more than 10 000 applications to its credit. At its launch, there are only a few dozen, but the figure has exploded outside the capabilities of aircraft. Using touch the iPhone and iPod Touch have created a range of services and games to use, and the case of Steve Demeter and its $ 250 000 in two months due motivate many. More »

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200 million downloads App Store

The presentation of the results of the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008, were also mentioned performance of the App Store and, it seems, is about to be cut a new goal. By Wednesday – exactly 102 days after opening July 11 – will be exceeded 200 million downloads.

This was announced by legitimate emphasis is the same Steve Jobs, who rejoices:

The two hundred millionth application! We have never seen anything like this in our careers

Available in 62 countries and assets of thousands of applications, App Store became a success very quickly. And how was for (time) iTunes Music Store and iPod, you are creating a virtuous circle whereby the greater the number of iPhone and more developers are interested in creating applications, and in turn the availability of high quality applications spurs in high sales of iPhone.

Currently, mobile applications are more than 5500, divided into 19 categories, including games, navigation and music.

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