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Apple Crosses One Billion App Downloads Thanks a Million Times

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A couple of days ago we posted about “Apple’s App Store soon to hit 1 billion downloads” and now the website says it has already hit a billion downloads and as such thanks a billion times to people all around the web who have contributed towards achieving a billion landmark.

If you are yet to contribute to this billion download mark, then you can go ahead and check out the below mentioned top 10 paid and free apps from the Apple app store. Continue reading “Apple Crosses One Billion App Downloads Thanks a Million Times”

Apple’s App Store Soon to hit 1 Billion Downloads!

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I just stumbled over the iTunes page and got to know about the celebration Apple is preparing for.

Yes, Apple will soon cross one billion downloads of applications available across Apps store and then it would be celebrating the 1 billion apps download mark by giving away huge amount of gifts. There is a counter running on the iTunes page with the live number of total apps downloaded, a screenshot of which could be seen on the top of this post. Continue reading “Apple’s App Store Soon to hit 1 Billion Downloads!”

Premium section on App Store to sort applications

Apple is going to create a Premium section on the App Store.

The App store currently has over 15,000 applications and above 500,000,000 downloads, making looking for a particular software a tedious task.

What Apple now proposes to do is that of the several developers, it’s being rumored that the game development companies will be given preference for the ‘Premium’ section of the App Store.

This move also comes close on the heels of Apple’s announcement of the new OS 3.0. Perhaps applications of the new operating system will figure in the new section, making searches easy for the end user.

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Nokia Ovi Store vs Apple App Store – an indepth comparison

Since Nokia announced the Ovi store at the Mobile World Congress this year, speculations have been rife about the success of this store in comparison to the already well-established and popular App Store from Apple. The N97 will be the first phone integrated into the service, with the remaining phones following when the system goes live in May.

We take a deeper look at the speculations and give you an insight into what’s in store for the end-user and beneficiary of what is clearly the big software battle between two giants.

First the similarities: Both Apple and Nokia offer a 70% revenue share to developers.

Differences: Apple began its App Store as a request from the public and developers to be allowed to develop products for the iPhone while Nokia is opening an application store to stream revenue into the company with a share of app sale prices, and to potentially push the sales of cellphones and smartphones.

Apple’s services are for a single handset, the iPhone; while Nokia’s is for dozens of different handsets with two different Symbian OS’s aboard. Continue reading “Nokia Ovi Store vs Apple App Store – an indepth comparison”

How To : Get an Apple iTunes USA Account for free and download items from the US App store

Spotted a cool free app or free download on the iTunes App Store but did u get a irritating message that the item is not available in the India iTunes Store

Well show you How To Get an Apple iTunes USA Account for free and download items from the US App store

Step 1: Get latest version iTunes (8.0.2.20) is the version we tested the hack on.

Set the country to USA using the dropdown at the bottom

Step 2 : Search for mocha vnc lite in the iTunes Store

Step 3 : Click on the free vnc lite app to download it .

You will be asked to sign-in to your itunes account.

At this step click on Create New Account at the top of the dialog Continue reading “How To : Get an Apple iTunes USA Account for free and download items from the US App store”

Nokia App Store is officially called as Ovi Store!

It’s got enough lime light more than a billion downloads and enough share of fame and critics choice. Here is Nokia’s attempt and breaking the groundbreaking software trend that won Apple a million hearts. Apple sold more handsets merely for their support of the App store.

 

Now Nokia have decided to take things in their stride and come this may Nokia are starting their own version which is going to be called the Ovi store. Continue reading “Nokia App Store is officially called as Ovi Store!”

Nokia App Store to be launched at MWC2009

Its was first Apple to bring the App Store , then came Google with Android Market , then Blackberry.

Now Nokia is all set to launch its own version of App Store in MWC 2009 in Barcelona this week.

Nokia App Store will be mainly be a market place for S60 apps.

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