Today was the official launch of the Apple App Store. I’ve had a quick chance to play with it and here are a few of my thoughts.
What I like about it… First off, it goes without saying that you have always been able to easily install software on your mac. You just had to find it. Sometimes it was through the Apple web site, but most of the time it was through word of mouth, tweets, blogs etc.
Software development isn’t about implementing every feature that a customer requests. Its about implementing what is right for the product. And a lot of times that involves cutting existing features and more time than not, simply saying no to a feature!
So I was checking out CNN today and I found this article titled Mac share grew after Windows 7 debut.
In the article, you’ll see some gems such as this:
If Microsoft (MSFT) was hoping that the launch of Windows 7 would halt the erosion of its operating system market share — and curb further inroads by Apple (AAPL) — there is no evidence that it’s working yet.
In fact, preliminary data released overnight Sunday by Net Applications show Mac OS X’s Internet share growing by 2.
Wow, the app store is only one. Seems like it should be older with 50,000 apps in the store. Impressive work Apple!
Apple has put together a special link to celebrate some of the top apps of the past year.
Speaking of iPhone Apps… stay tuned for an announcement in the next week concerning a side project that I have been working on. We have some big plans in the works.
Well, the keynote was today at noon CDT, let’s see how I did.
1. The standard stats of how well the iPhones and Apps are selling Yup, got those. And they were impressive! Something along the lines of 50,000 apps, over 1 billion app downloads and somewhere in the range of 40,000,000 iPhones and iPod Touches. Nice!
2. iPhone 3.0 will be released with availability right away for iPhones. Once again iTouches will get the $20-$30 shaft.