Half Off for WWDC Week, Just in Time for Summer.
Terminology is one of the best reference apps currently avaialable on the iPad: it’s great looking dictionary for the English language, which Cody reviewed a few weeks ago. Since then the app has been doing pretty great in the App Store, but what about actual sales figures?
The developer of Terminology helps us understand the situation.
If the iPad is supposed to be the future of publishing, you’d expect a subscription based model here or there right? Well apparently not. If you’re curious as to why publications like Wired and Men’s Health sell individual issues at higher than average prices, it’s because they’re unable to adopt a subscription model.
So here we are again, talking about new sections Apple has introduced in the App Store. Newsstand and Radio, available here and here, feature applications to, ehm, read news and listen to online radios. Apps such as NYT, Instapaper, Reeder and Pandora, Last.fm and Sirius XM are in there.
Now I’m wondering: how long before a section that showcases apps optimized for the Retina Display? I’m tired of browsing AppShopper for that.
Sometimes a new app comes around and reinvents a genre. A few times (a very few times, actually) a new app arrives and reinvents everything you thought about a device. I’ve mentioned the “second wave of iPad apps” before: I think that a new generation of applications for Apple’s tablet is ready to invade the App Store to show everyone, not just its 3 million users, what the iPad was meant to be since the beginning.
I think that the second wave starts today with Flipboard.
You might have noticed this on other blogs earlier today: Apple approved an app called Handy Light, which was pretty similar to other flashlight apps on the App Store. Except for one little insignificant and absolutely unnoticeable detail for American users: it allowed tethering on the iPhone.
With AT&T. For free. Boom.
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?”
The App Store is filling up with original section created by Apple every week, and we’ve recently noticed that this trend is growing - sometimes they even launch 2-3 section each week. Today’s one is good: Comics.
We covered iChatr two weeks ago. It was a simple application for the iPhone 4 that, just like Chatroulette on desktop computers, allowed you to video chat with random strangers - all the time. You have no contacts, no friends, you just see the face of another user and click next.
Well, when you see the face you must be lucky. Problem is, being Chatroulette completely anonymous, people started to inappropriately expose themselves. The same happened to iChatr.
