Apple’s App Store: How Much Is It? – BusinessWeek.
Great story! Did you know that you could download all the apps the App Store for a mere $73K? Not bad for 50,000 new toys!
With – yep – 50,000 apps in the App Store today, the number seems to be nearly doubling every couple of months – [...]
So, we get that a lot of companies are still a little tentative about mobile, despite the fact that (a) there’s an audience of over 260 million in the US, (b) it’s a highly accountable channel, (c) that response rates, particularly for SMS campaigns, have been shown time and time again to be exponentially higher than email, etc…..but we understand. It’s new. New things can seem scary.
Had to get this quick post in on the newest iPhone, via Gizmodo. Look for more than just the much-needed copy and paste features, improved app experiences…and support for MMS. Read on for more.
Apparently, I’m not the only seeing my handset as so much more that just a phone. And while perhaps not everyone wants to actually marry their iPhone as much as I do, the world does seem to feel the draw. Per MediaPost, within three years, smartphone sales are projected to double, accounting for 20% of handsets globally, versus the 10% they represent now. The data was released yesterday by InStat.
…and who can blame them? How did I live before I had this thing? Why wouldn’t LG, Blackberry and the other industry leaders want to emulate the iPhone? Here’s a copycat report, courtesy of Reuters, from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.