100,000 iPhone apps downloaded

Yesterday Apple officially announced it hit a milestone, soaring past 100,000 applications available for download in the App Store. [via Bits]

IPhone and iPod Touch owners have downloaded more than 2 billion applications since the storefront opened in July 2008. By comparison, it took more than two years for Apple to announce the sale of its billionth song through iTunes.

Book apps overtake games on iPhone

According to Analytics firm Flurry, games apps were overtaken by book apps for the first time. The Telegraph reports.

In the last four months, book apps have exceeded the popularity of games apps – with one out of every five new apps launching in October having been a book.

Stanford’s free iphone programming course downloaded 1m times

According to the Cult of Mac and the SFGate, one million potential iPhone developers downloaded Stanford’s free programming course since it started in April.

Palm Pre App Catalog Hits 300 Titles

For those keeping score in the mobile software wars, it’s roughly 100,000 to 10,000 to 300. That’s the number of available apps for iPhone, Android, and webOS devices, respectively.

[via jkOnTheRun]

Shoppers spent $400 million with eBay's iPhone app

Some numbers that will blow your socks off.

According to the Financial Times, shoppers have spent more than $400m on eBay using eBay’s iPhone app.

More than 4.6m people have downloaded the eBay app, using it to buy not just books and clothes, but also a Lamborghini, a $150,000 boat, and a Bentley.

[via TechCrunch]

iPhone App Store Reaches 100,000 Apps

No official announcement from Apple yet, but according to UnwiredView.com, the number of apps that have been approved for use in the App Store have surpassed 100,000.

2 Billion iPhone Apps Downloaded, Apple Says

A mere four months after the company announced that a billion apps had been downloaded in the store, Apple on Monday said that the number of downloads had crossed the two billion mark.

Apple said there are more than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch owners worldwide and over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program.

[via GigaOM]

Sizing up Apple's App Store

Bernstein Research has taken a whack at estimating App Store sales. Total Telecom reports.

Apple generates quarterly revenues of $60 million-$110 million from downloaded apps. That's just over 1% of total Apple revenue, if we use the high end of Sacconaghi's App Store revenue estimate.

The analyst believes the App Store contributes between 2 cents and 4 cents a share in profit to Apple a quarter (Apple's earnings per share were $1.35 for the three months ended June 27). Sacconaghi arrives at his estimates by crunching numbers from the most popular application lists on the App Store. His sales estimates are for the money Apple gets from the 30% cut it takes on App Store software sales; he estimates independent makers of iPhone software generate between $140 million and $250 million a quarter through their 70% cut of App Store sales.

Apple Approved Nearly 1400 iPhone Apps Last Friday

According to MacRumors, Apple approved close to 1400 iPhone apps last Friday, by far the largest number approved in a single day in the past few months.

Over 300 of the approved applications were games.

Barnes & Noble iPhone apps surpass 1 million downloads

According to a press release from Barnes & Noble, Inc., the B&N eReader app for the iPhone and iPod touch recently hit the one million mark.

The free B&N eReader app is one of the most popular apps in the iTunes Books category, and held the No. 1 spot throughout the summer.

[via ZDNet]

Survey Says Most iPhone Owners Download 10+ Apps

At the end of June the company reported a record 5.2 million iPhones sold in its third quarter - a 600% increase over the same time frame a year earlier. Steve Jobs was proud to announce that more than 1.5 billion applications had been downloaded from the App Store.

Unsurprisingly, according to a new survey released by Compete, 72% of iPhone owners have downloaded 10 or more applications to their devices. Meanwhile, in comparison only 27% of Blackberry owners have downloaded 5 or more applications.

... The top free application in the App Store's social networking category is Facebook and 71% of those surveyed reported accessing the site from their mobile device.

Nevertheless, Twitter usage appeared remarkably lower than expected. Compete reports that 85% of smartphone owners still prefer to access Twitter from their computer rather than their mobile device.

[via The New York Times]

Developers Call BS On $2.4B iPhone App Store Number

Estimates that the iPhone App Store is worth $2.4 billion a year are utterly ridiculous, iPhone developers say.

The Yankee Group also says the numbers are way high, and AdMob defends its estimates, kinda, sorta.

Read full article in CultofMac.

$200 million worth of apps sold every month

According to mobile advertising startup AdMob via GigaOM, there are some $200 million worth of applications sold in Apple’s iPhone store every month, or about $2.4 billion a year.

Just to put that in context, Apple says about 1.5 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store. In comparison, the Android marketplace brings in about $5 million a month or on a run rate to do $60 million in a year, AdMob says.

40 staffers. 2 reviews. 8,500 iPhone apps per week

CNN publishes interesting insight on Apple's App Store approval process. The details come from Apple's response to the FCC's July 31 letter of inquiry into why Google's Google Voice app has not been approved.

Apple looks at every app it receives — 200,000 so far — pouring in at the rate of 8,500 new apps and updates per week.

-- The company employs 40 full-time reviewers; at least two reviewers study each app.

-- Apple has established — it doesn't say when — an App Store executive review board that sets policy and reviews app that have escalated to the board because they raise new or complex issues.

-- Apps are reviewed for just what you'd expect: bugs, instabilities, privacy violations, stuff that little kids shouldn't see.

-- Apps are also reviewed for the stuff that gets to the heart of the matter: use of unauthorized protocols and "applications that degrade the core experience of the iPhone." This presumably covers Apple's contractual obligation not to overtax AT&T's (T) fragile 3G network with TV or VOIP.

But the amount of time they spend is pretty limited. CNET's Erica Ogg has done some quick back of the envelope calculations and determined that 40 people looking at 8,500 apps and updates during a regular five-day week works out to something like six minutes per app per reviewer.

How Do iPhone Users Discover Apps?

How did Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users discover the 1.5 billion apps they downloaded before July 14, 2009? Business Insider reports.

Mostly by browsing and searching, according to a survey of 190 users conducted by mobile advertising firm AdMob. That's not a shock, but we were surprised to learn that 20% of respondents said they learned about new apps from ads in other apps. (Of course, it benefits AdMob, the conductor of the survey, to point this out.)

Click here to see chart.

USAA bank iPhone app processes $1.5 million in check deposits since Tuesday

USAA's iPhone banking application, which lets users deposit checks by taking a photograph of the deposit, has been installed 150,000 times and has processed $1.5 million in deposits in its first three days.

[MocoNews.net via Mobile Burn]

Previously: - US Bank To Allow Check Deposits via iPhone

Virtual Zippo Lighter iPhone app surpasses 5M downloads

Zippo Manufacturing Co. claims that its Virtual Zippo Lighter is the most popular free, branded iPhone application ever.

Virtual Zippo Lighter was one of the original apps in the App Store and has notched five million downloads.

[via Mobile Marketer]

Apps 'to be as big as internet'

The market for mobile applications, or apps, will become "as big as the internet", peaking at 10 million apps in 2020, a leading online store says, reports the BBC.

Apps will be as big if not bigger than the internet," according to Ilja Laurs, chief executive of GetJar, a leading independent application store.

"They will peak at around 100,000 by the end of the year. That will be a tipping point and after that there will be a gradual fall in the rate of development.

"The full blossom will come in ten years and mobile apps will become as popular as websites are today with consumers," Mr Laurs told BBC News.

IPhone App Store tops 1.5 billion downloads, 65000 apps

In its first year, Apple's iPhone App Store has hit 1.5 billion downloads and 65,000 apps.

Apple also has more than 100,000 developers in its iPhone Developer Program. These are all new figures based on the July 11 anniversary of the App Store.

[via The San Francisco Chronicle]

How Much Does It Cost To Buy Every iPhone App?

How much would it cost to buy all 55,732 apps in the app store as of yesterday, June 7, 2009? $144,326.06 according to Forbes.

Sirius iPhone App Hits 1 Million Downloads

Sirius XM Radio said its application for the iPhone and iPod Touch has been downloaded more than a million times within the first two weeks of its release. Information Week reports.

The app gives iPhone users mobile access to 120 different radio channels that cover music, live talk shows, news, comedy, and sports. The download milestone is a bit surprising because the satellite company's app did not include access to its popular talk show host Howard Stern because of licensing issues.

Just How Successful is the iPhone App Store?

In Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker review of Chris Anderson’s new book, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price,” he said that Apple will soon be making more money from iPhone downloads than it does from the iPhone itself. The WSJ reports.

He said this to make a point that businesses can still be successful charging for content. But a quick glance at the iPhone’s numbers show that he may have been a little too hasty in his assertion.

... But a bigger moneymaker than the iPhone itself? It’s not even close. Apple doesn’t break out details about iPhone and App Store profits, so it’s difficult to get a precise figure. But Shaw Wu, an analyst for Kaufman Brothers, said his “guesstimate” for Apple’s quarterly App Store revenue is a few hundred million dollars at best, out of $1.5 billion in overall iPhone-related revenues.

On a per phone basis, Wu estimated that Apple gets about $600 a phone, give or take a few, based on a calculation that divides iPhone cash flow by the number of phones it has sold. (Consumers are able to buy iPhones for much less because cellphone carriers subsidize the difference).

Read full article.

Palm Pre Reaches 1 Million Apps Mark

The Palm Pre App Catalohttp://developer.palm.com/g has reached 1 million downloads, nearly three weeks after launch of the device, according to data from mobile analytics and advertising firm Medialets.

By comparison, Apple's App Store hit 1 million downloads 17 days earlier than the Pre, had 16 times the number of apps, and 26 times the number of users.

[via PC Mag]

Related: - Palm Pre Nears 700,000 App Downloads in Less Than Two Weeks

Palm Pre Nears 700,000 App Downloads in Less Than Two Weeks

Medialets is reporting that as of June 17th, a mere 11 days after its launch, Palm Pre users have downloaded well over 650,000 apps.

With only 30 apps in the App Catalog (and none of them fart-related), it's still clear that Palm users know and want apps.

[via Gizmodo]

50,000 applications now available in the Apple store

There are 50,000 applications now available in the Apple store. With more than a billion downloads, Apple takes about a 30 percent cut of the ones that are making money.

[via CBS]

Quantifying the Mobile Apps Revolution

Gravity Tank, a Chicago-based creative consulting firm, surveyed over a thousand iPhone and Android G1 users in April and May. Bits Blog reports.

Their study, called “Apps Get Real,” show the different ways in which these programs are changing the way people use their phones, spend their time and organize their lives.

Among some of the findings from the report:

-- Respondents have downloaded an average of 23.6 applications to their phone and use an average of 6.8 apps every day.

-- Nearly half (48 percent) of phone owners report shopping for apps more than once a week.

-- About the same number (49 percent) report using apps on their phone for more than 30 minutes a day.

The survey shows apps are also using up lots of people’s time — to the detriment of other technologies and types of media. Thirty-two percent said they used portable gaming devices less because of their app-enabled phones.

Other technologies and media also suffered; 31 percent said they read newspapers less; 28 percent use GPS devices less; 28 percent use their MP3 players less; and 24 percent are watching less television.than 30 minutes a day.

Read full article.

consumers are more likely to download iPhone apps on the weekend.

Mobile analytics firm Flurry has found that consumers are more than 30% more likely to download an iPhone app on the weekend than on weekdays. [via Forbes]

Consumers also spend more on apps on the weekend. According to Flurry's data, paid games are downloaded 48% more on a weekend day than a weekday; paid non-game apps are downloaded 36% more.

In comparison, free non-game apps see 27% increases on weekends and free games get a 26% weekend boost.

... The San Francisco-based firm expected to see a disparity between weekday and weekend downloads, but not one this large, says Peter Farago, Flurry's vice president of marketing. Flurry is advising developers to capitalize on the trend by releasing apps as early as possible in the week--ideally Monday.

New Yorker iPhone Cover Boosts Sales for Brushes App

Artist Jorge Colombo's much written about New Yorker cover painted with his iPhone thanks to the Brushes sent the app sales through the roof, according to Bits Blog.

The novelty and popularity of the cover has provided a healthy boost in sales for the 32-year-old who works shifts in a coffee shop when he’s not developing applications for the iPhone and Mac.

On Monday, Mr. Sprang said the application had its highest selling day since it was first released into Apple’s App Store in August, with 2,700 copies at $4.99 apiece flying off the virtual shelves. To date, the application has sold around 40,000 copies, he said.

Other iPhone artwork:

-- David Hockney paints mini masterpieces with his iPhone

-- Artist "fingerpaints" art on his iPhone

-- Stef Kardos' iPhone Sketches

iPhone app prices are dropping

Dutch monitoring start-up Distimo has just released an interesting report about Apple’s App Store. TechCrunch reports.

Based on publicly available data for the month of April, 2009, which you can download here, iPhone app prices are dropping. The total combined price of all apps in the Top 100 decreased from $265 to $244, or down 7.9%.

Eventually, Distimo aims to release market-wide data on all application stores (Android, Blackberry, etc.) on a monthly basis, free of charge for broad reports on the U.S. and as a paid service for people who would like to get some insight into what’s happening in other countries or specific verticals.

Stanford's free iPhone course hits 1 million downloads

Stanford University on Monday said its free iPhone Application Programming course has been downloaded more than 1 million times since being uploaded to Apple's iTunes U--a learning-focused area of iTunes--seven weeks ago.

News.com via Techmeme

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