As Philip Elmer-DeWitt just noticed , Apple’s grandiose App Store celebrated yet another milestone this weekend; its first quarter million apps. As of now, you can find over 250,000 different iOS apps from over 50,000 developers on the Apple App Store, 2 years and 49 days after its launch. In reality, it’s even more than that, as these analytics only include the American App Store. Therefore apps like Spotify, not available in the US, are not even counted.
With rumors circulating about a new iPod touch with camera and Apple TVs running iOS, one wonders if any changes may be coming to the Mac line of products. According to a rumor, at least one Mac product will soon be seeing a major overhaul. The MacBook Air, originally heralded as “Apple’s answer to the netbook,” was groundbreaking with its extremely low weight and size when first released
As expected , Apple finally got around to approve the Firefox Home syncing iPhone app last night and it’s now available for download on the App Store. As a reminder, Firefox Home is an app that allows you to keep your bookmarks, history and open tabs synced between your desktop and your iDevice. It relies on Firefox’s Sync plugin, so you’re forced to use this browser to work
The app approval teams over at Apple and developers have been busy lately and it shows. If you head on over to the iPad App Store and look in the upper left hand corner you’ll see that it says “1 – 12 of ###”, well the ### being the current number of apps that were developed to run on the iPad. At the moment, it indicates 10061.
Apple took a new step today towards promoting itself using social media and launched a brand new Facebook page dedicated to the App Store; yet another way to find out about apps. On top of the classical wall that will literally flood you with app recommendations, the App Store Facebook page actually does go a little further than what most companies do by featuring different elements like the App Store’s top chart, a search engine and some sharing features. It’s nothing special as most of the posts seem to cover pretty obvious selections and not really the “hidden gems” you would expect, but I guess it’s a start