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Apps, Apps, and More Apps

What are the exact numbers behind the App Store? And the Android marketplace, or Palm’s one? What’s the most downloaded paid app ever? And average app prices? Here’s a interesting “infographic” for you, courtesy of Online MBA.

“They have become a filter for out world. Through them we can access information, games, entire virtual worlds. Not the internet, nor our computers, not tablets or laptops – just little programs on our phones. Millions of little programs. What are the real numbers behind these programs, and why are there so many of them?”

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What The iPhone 4 Gyroscope Means for Augmented Reality

When the iPhone 4 was announced, there was one feature many of us were skeptical about: the gyroscope. I think the problem was that many didn’t catch the differences between an accelerometer and a gyroscope, and Steve’s jenga demo surely didn’t help in making these differences very clear. Ngmoco’s first FPS for the iPhone 4 was the first app to truly take a adavntage of the new technology.

Acrossair, developers of many AR apps for iPhone, decided to give us a demonstration of how much their AR browser can be different whether it’s run on an iPhone 4 and a 3GS.

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Apple Planning to Charge for iOS 4 on iPad? Spoiler: No.

Earlier today Stuff reported that, according to their source, Apple is planning to charge for iOS 4 upgrade on iPad. This is the original report:

“The top secret plans were whispered to Stuff by an anonymous source. There are no details of how much Apple will charge for the upgrade, but we’d expect in the region of £5.

Asked how sure they were about the forthcoming iOS 4 charge, our source replied, “Definite.” And we don’t think they’re wrong.”

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Incipio Offers Apple Bumper Trade in Program

While Incipio isn’t giving anyone any freebies, they will give you five bucks towards one of their awesome cases. Macworld reports:

Incipio on Monday announced its “We Love Our Customers Too!” Bumper Trade-In Program. The short of the long is: you send Incipio your Apple iPhone 4 Bumper (which you presumably will obtain for free soon), and it will give you $5 off any Incipio product from its online store.

So get a rebate or a free bumper from Apple, turn yours into Incipio, get a $5 dollar coupon, and buy big baby.

[Incipio via Macworld]

Bumpers Belong on Cars, not iPhones

I hate to steal headlines, but this one from Fusion of Ideas was just too good. Listen guys, you can get an Apple bumper or any of the other cases Apple will have on sale. That’s cool. But for some, we don’t want to ruin the original form factor or pocket-ability of a sexy device. That’s why Fusion of Ideas is giving away their Steal Armor side pieces for free. You heard right.

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