iTunes App Store passes 10,000 products mark
Five months after the App Store’s launch, there’s still plenty going on. The site has just added its 10,000th application, while Apple has announced which apps are most popular.
The 10k barrier has technically been broken twice now. Last week a site dedicated to tracking applications said it had counted 10,000. However, rivals pointed out this didn’t take account of apps which had been removed and another site says there were 10,000 current apps as of Wednesday this week.
The most interesting note of this debate is that it reveals that 324 applications had been removed after initially getting approval. That’s more than 3 percent, which again raises the question of exactly how the Apple approval process really works.
Apple has published a list of the most downloaded applications. Appropriately for an iPod style device, the most popular free app is for streaming radio site Pandora (which reports two million downloads), with Facebook in second place. The list of paid applications is dominated by games, with the unlikely holder of the top spot being Koi Pond, a simulation whose name says it all.
The transatlantic divide is still in full effect: the iTunes store in the United Kingdom shows the top free download as iPint. It’s simply an animated picture of a pint of lager which shakes, drips and empties depending on how you hold the phone.
As Blorge’s Dave Parrack reported earlier this week, Amazon (which is a rival to Apple in the digital music stakes) has also launched an iPhone App. It’s simply a link to the Amazon site, but makes it easy to check online prices of albums, books, DVDs and so on while out shopping.
There’s also a curious feature where you can take a picture of a product with your phone camera and send it to Amazon where a freelance worker will try to identify it and find the Amazon price. I wouldn’t be surprised if the main use of this involves intoxicated pranksters sending pictures of their own buttocks or other body parts.
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