MacGeekery at its finest!
Lets see…
225,000 apps have paid out US$1 billion to developers. So that’s around US$4444.44 per app.
At a guess I’d be hoping that it doesn’t take more than two weeks to write an App, otherwise I suspect most developers are being underpaid, despite the ‘I quit my day job’ stories Apple is keen to promote.
Xero is an accounting web app for Mac and iPhone.
Aside from the usual random speculation about Steve Jobs worldchanging release in a few hours time, there have been a few interesting articles recently, namely
I also wonder what the cool feature will be… Mesh networking? Biofeedback? Merging with other nearby devices to form a larger device? Inbuilt projector?
It will also be interesting to see if Apple launches any updates to their 17 inch MacBook Pro as they would probably always have done if they were attending MacWorld this year. Also, I predict an iPhone software update, an iTunes update and a Mac OS X update.
Now, lets sit back and see how wrong we all are…
Apple has announced that the 2 billionth application has been downloaded from the App Store.
The second billion only took 5 months. The store has 85,000 apps and 125,000 developers, with more than 50 million iPhones and iPod Touches sold in 77 countries.
Graphs of downloads and Apps on the store:
20 years on, Technologizer does a Macintosh Portable teardown. Dig that 10 hour lead-acid battery, I wonder if you could retrofit a LiIon powerpack? And a bigger hard drive… and more RAM…
TechCrunch has some photos of the very cool iPhone App Wall at WWDC. Every time you buy an App an angel gets its wings (or at least, its icon bounces).
MacRumors are providing MacRumorsLive, @macrumors on twitter, and a spoiler free keynote stream to notify you when the keynote video coverage is up (ie not live).
John C. Welch will be twittering the keynote for MacJournals magazines (MWJ, MDJ).
For Aussies, MacTalk are offering
Coverage starts at 2:30am Melbourne time (UTC/GMT+10) for all those up late with Swine Flu.
If you can’t get away from your databases, you can at least talk to them from your iPhone using the iPhone version of jHeidi (presumably not using Java on the iPhone…). Supports Oracle and MySQL, only $3.99.
…this is for fighting, this is for fun.
Newsweek reports that the US Army are using iPod Touches and some iPhones for translation and other purposes. They’re cheap, rugged and many recruits are already familiar with using them.
Could be quite interesting if integrated with DARPA’s locationally aware wiki TIGR.
Not sure if the users get to upload their own content onto them though.
Unsurprisingly, Apple has pulled an iPhone App game where the aim is to shake a baby to death.
Surprisingly, they approved it in the first place?
