Only 15,000 apps? The other 5K went somewhere…
In Apple’s weekly marketing missive hyping some of the better games, applications and utilities available on App Store, there’s a banner headline proclaiming that the iTunes store front now holds more than 15,000 apps, which is around 5,000 less than the fan boys, including this one, said there were there just last week.
In last Friday’s iPhone gold rush rages on—yes, it was Friday the 13th—I repeated a truism circulating ’round Web that the App Store had surpassed 20,000 apps. So, which is true(r)—the fan boy math or Apple’s marketing spin?
Use your iPhone as a 3G modem
You need to send, download, whatever a file or something using your MacBook, but you’re in the somewhere close to middle of nowhere (you can’t see it, but you can smell the cows).
Well, if you have got a 3G iPhone, its USB tether cable and at least one bar of (hopefully 3G) reception, according to PCWorld you can get your notebook online and get your work done:
1. Jailbreak your iPhone (easier than you think)
2. Install iPhoneModem
3. Set up and you’re good to go!
Obviously, I’m glossing over the details, but you get the idea. Moreover, you do not have to wait for AT&T to offer modem tethering, which is expected to cost at least $30 more per month than you are already paying.
What’s holding you back?
New math?
Well, if you go to the App Store, then choose browse and then add up the number of apps available in each section you get… more than 20,000. Actually, quite a few more than 20,000.
What gives? Is Apple assuming that roughly a quarter to one-third of the applications—all of which its censors approved at one point or another—are crap? That may be a fair assumption on their part, but inquiring minds want to know how and why Apple’s diddling the numbers…
What’s your take?
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February 18th, 2009
Apple always likes to underestimate its numbers.
That way, when the real numbers come in, Apple looks awesome.
Apple has done this for years.
February 18th, 2009
I wonder how many apps show up in more than one section.
February 18th, 2009
Or perhaps the banner ha just not been updated since it got posted well over a month ago.
Not much to create any conspiracy theories around, but plausible.
February 18th, 2009
“I wonder how many apps show up in more than one section.”
I “think” entertainment and games are the same category as both have 3,500 titles and the page tops look the same…
February 18th, 2009
I think they may have cleaned out the crap.
I was thinking about complaining.
There are to many garbage apps waisting space in there.
February 18th, 2009
“[...] add up the number of apps available in each section you get…”
There’s your mistake. Some apps are in multiple categories (eg, Lifestyle and Healthcare & Fitness, Games and Entertainment, etc.) so they would appear twice.