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44 Billion downloads of smartphone apps by 2016 – study estimates

Sheuli — Mon, 02 May 2011 09:31:14 +0000

A new study from ABI Research estimates that by 2016 smartphone apps industry will achieve 44 billion downloads.

Currently there are about 350,000 apps in Apple’s App Store and more than 330,000 apps in Android Market. On top of this Nokia’s Ovi Store has about 54,000 apps, RIM’s App World 16,000 smartphone applications and Windows Marketplace 15,000 downloadable applications.

Skype 2.0

Sheuli — Sun, 30 May 2010 18:25:45 +0000

The new app Skype 2.0 just landed in the app store. Skype 2.0 for iPhone allows you make calls over 3G. However, there is a catch.

After August 2010 Skype will charge a small monthly fee for use of the 3G calling feature. That means even though you already pay AT&T for a data plan, you will have to pay extra fee to Skype.

One million iPads sold

Sheuli — Mon, 03 May 2010 12:13:35 +0000

Apple announced in its press release that the company “sold its one millionth iPad on Friday, just 28 days after its introduction on April 3.” We can also read that there are now more than 5,000 apps for iPad in the Apple’s App Store and users have downloaded more than 12 million copies of apps for iPad (most of them works also with iPhone).

Success of iPad

Sheuli — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:50:04 +0000

Apple said it sold more than 300,000 iPads during a device’s first day on the market. iPad users downloaded already more than one million apps from the App Store and more than 250,000 ebooks from the iBookstore.