Comments on: Apple App Store Tops 500 Million Downloads

By: berry pickin

berry pickin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:36:08 +0000

bluehorseshoe…….I agree with you. Just how many “flashlight” or “beer glass” apps do you need to see it is a joke?? An app to make your phone fart?? WOW!! I don’t know how we got by without it. Last I counted, there was 8 Bible apps in there. Not one app fixes any of the short comings that the iPhone has. Apple won’t allow it. THAT is the problem with the app store. So, get your iPhone, load up Magic 8 ball, and have fun. Or Zippo, and impress your friends with your lighter skillz. It is why I went back to my Curve, and soon to have Bold. Apple had a great plan…..Put out a cool product that does nothing, and sit back and let others develope your programing. If they would have only “let it be” and let people truely make the phone great, RIM would have been in trouble. But, Apple being Apple, couldn’t do that. Now, if you jail break and unlock the phone, then you really have something. But, should you have to??

By: VitaminAntioxidants

VitaminAntioxidants — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:30:38 +0000

unbelievable, that’s a lot of apps.

By: timmy

timmy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:48:38 +0000

i like my BB…

(and my iPhone).

that number, 500 M+; that is impressive. why are ppl so quick to be a dick on blog posts like this?!

just wondering. : )

By: How Important Are 3rd Party Apps?

How Important Are 3rd Party Apps? — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:07:24 +0000

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By: Robb Dunewood

Robb Dunewood — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:37:12 +0000

@Thought,

Well said.

By: Robb Dunewood

Robb Dunewood — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:35:11 +0000

It sometimes amazes me the conversation a post with 20 words and a picture can provoke.

I say again, half a billion downloads in roughly 6 months is an impressive feat.

I share the opinion that the vast majority of the 15,000 applications hosted on the App Store are less than useful, however, that makes 500,000,000 downloads in 6 months even more impressive… Doesn’t it?

By: Thought

Thought — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:05:46 +0000

I think at some point RIM needs to take its OS to a whole new level to take advantage of the power available to them in their devices.

Let’s face it…the current RIM OS is basically the same old OS just w/ some eye candy cobbled on top of it. That’s one reason why the Storm is kind of disappointing in its software; the OS is really not designed to run a touchscreen only device.

Apple has a far more powerful OS, and apparently now Palm does as well.

Software determines success in computing devices moreso than anything. RIM’s advantage has always been the software the propelled its push email system, and that advantage still holds. But in all other regards RIM is falling behind software-wise.

By: bluehorseshoe

bluehorseshoe — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:08:27 +0000

@ The Rock

You just don’t get it, but that’s OK.

By: The Rock

The Rock — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:01:16 +0000

Robb,

“I think that an Application Center hosted by RIM independently of the carriers would be much more useful and popular.”

I agree. Keep the applications store / center independent of the service providers. The service providers have shown time and time again they are not able to remain neutral enough when it comes to allowing options on the dumbphones, it would be only worse when it comes to smartphones and service provider interference.