Comments on: Apple: 15,000 iPhone Apps, Half a Billion Downloads

By: Loyd Laasaga

Loyd Laasaga — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:09:20 +0000

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By: frog

frog — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:30:06 +0000

I’ve downloaded nearly 100, about 75% of them free. I wonder if we’ll ever see something similar on the desktop? Sure it’ll never be the “only” source on a desktop, but it’d be popular IMO. Maybe Apple could trial it for widgets in Snow Leopard.

By: ernest

ernest — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:24:05 +0000

just 81 apps.

By: NoWires

NoWires — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:57:56 +0000

Any one want to guess the free vs. paid ratio of the half billion downloads? My estimate is about 5:1, and I think I am generous.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:21:56 +0000

My favorite is cut and paste app…no wait, I dreamed that.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:15:28 +0000

I’m hoping many of these apps will be axed when Apple includes their own versions with the iPhone. The “To Do” apps alone make up at least 3,000 of them.

By: Brian Hart

Brian Hart — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:31:58 +0000

Great post! Kudos to Apple. What I’d like to see now is a more manageable way to filter through those 15,000 apps to sift the wheat from the tares! How about a more robust filtering method?

By: Jozsoo

Jozsoo — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:30:55 +0000

My iTunes App library says 124.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:57:41 +0000

181

By: Matt Sawyers

Matt Sawyers — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:51:57 +0000

I’ve easily downloaded over 1,000 applications and some of them repeatedly…

By: iAirmanshirk

iAirmanshirk — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:44:48 +0000

The marines say 4 letters?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:32:59 +0000

How many? As the marines say, TMTC!

By: iAirmanshirk

iAirmanshirk — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:18:41 +0000

Amazing job Apple! And good job developers as well!

By: bubbatex

bubbatex — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:18:04 +0000

and they did a full page add on the back of the first section in the WSJ today for this too!