iPhone now has 100,000 apps News
iPhone News by Oli Welsh
Apple has announced that the App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch now has over 100,000 programs available for download, making it the "largest applications store in the world", the company claims.
According to Apptism (via Gamasutra), 18,554 of the applications are games.
Apple says it has distributed 2 billion applications since the store opened last year - an average of 20,000 downloads per application and over 4 million downloads a day.
As of this week, one of the 100,000 programs is the ads-free Eurogamer iPhone app. It's a lot quicker than Safari, supports comments, the forum and Eurogamer TV, and costs £2.39 from the App Store.
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GamesProgrammer
05/11/09 @ 09:19
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Is it me or does the eurogamer app just look like an RSS feed reader that can only pick up 1 website?
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Whether it's it's thru updates or not it's still a huge feat to achieve. Despite the games That are good are few and far between, the iPhone isn't all about games. I've so many good apps that arnt games, including the eurogamer app I'm using now.
All in all the iPhone kicks ass, I don't care who states "iPhone fan boi!!! Get a nokia N series model sick sick 101 lulz" i already have done and they suck, I won't ever have another phone now |
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azazel_fallenangel
05/11/09 @ 10:10
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Is this counting the "Lite" versions, as that could effectivly double the number of apps available. A lot of apps are redundant anyway, there's loads of spirit levels and unit conversion apps etc.
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My experience is that an iPhone is still probably better for the man on the street, but a more tech-minded person will get more from a good Android phone if you're willing to do a little reading and customising. A masochist would get on well with WinMo.
I am a proud geek so it's Android all the way baby.
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makeamazing
05/11/09 @ 13:11
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My first game is nearly ready for the iPhone... dont think I will sell many with that number of games already available :D
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IneptPercy
05/11/09 @ 13:42
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Is there an app to kill all igadget apple sheep.
My Sony Ericsson W880 is better than the iphone. |
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Pac-man ate my wife
05/11/09 @ 13:44
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Once again another platform that gamers are cutting off their noses to spite their faces over.
There are plenty of great, engaging titles that'll absorb you for hours and days (as well as a host of fun, pick-up-and-play disposable titles). If you read any half-decent review site you'll find them. Jesus, it's comment threads like these that make me realise most gamers really are tossers. EDIT: And while the Android platform has great potential at the moment it has very few games that compare to the quality now found on the iPhone. In time I'm sure it'll be a real contender in the not too distant future, however at the moment you've got to be kidding me!
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GamesConnoisseur
05/11/09 @ 13:58
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Sure other phones may be better in some regards, iPhone just simply have the bigger presence and likely get served better.
I was in Paris for full week, never used anything other than my useful iPhone for everything, Metro, Musuems, navigating Latin Quarter and so on. Also my main EG browser too. Plus EG added new iPhone app, neat but still prefer the website version though. |
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