Jun 20

Close to 700,000 Palm Pre apps downloaded to date

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There may not be a ton of Pre apps available just yet, but it looks like there’s enough to accumulate an impressive 666,511 downloads as of June 17th, which likely means that we’re close to or past the 700,000 mark by now. As you can see above in graph form courtesy of Medialets, things have been rising steadily as more and more apps became available, and there’s no noticeable sign of a drop-off even as apps remained around the 30 mark after the end of the first week. Of course, it’s obviously still a little early to draw any firm conclusions, and there’s no telling how things could shake out once the long-awaited PreFart and PreBeer apps make their debut.

[Via Mobile-review]

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Close to 700,000 Palm Pre apps downloaded to date originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 17

Sirius XM iPhone app is now live, streaming

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It hasn’t been Thursday too long, but as promised, Sirius XM’s iPhone / iPod touch app has popped up in the iTunes app store, ready for your aural digestion. There’s a 7-day free trial being offered, but yeah, eventually you’re gonna have to pay. Now that it’s there, we might as well point out the app’s got a 9+ rating for mild profanity and crude humor. Worth giving up Pandora, Last.fm, or any number of other free music streamers already available? That’s your call, so go download and decide for yourself.

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Sirius XM iPhone app is now live, streaming originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 16

Sirius XM iPhone app coming this week, says customer support

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Just in case a new iPhone model and OS 3.0 weren’t enough goodies for this week, Sirius XM support team members are sending emails out announcing the company’s long-awaited iPhone / iPod touch app will finally seeing the light of day and will launch this Thursday, June 18th. We just got off the phone with a customer service rep who confirmed the letters are legit, so unless there’s some communication breakdown on the corporate latter, looks like it’s really, finally coming. It’ll be available as a free download from the App Store, but those who subscribe to the gratis Basic Online Service will have to upgrade to the $2.99 monthly premium plan to have it on the go. We’re a bit light on other details — we can’t imagine it being as full-featured as the standalone receivers — but it’s a good bet we’ll have all our questions answered before the week is out.

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Sirius XM iPhone app coming this week, says customer support originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 09

Apple launching free iDisk iPhone app for viewing and sending stored docs — still no substitute for a file system

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Buried under the considerable stack of WWDC newness is news that Apple is launching an iPhone iDisk application for MobileMe users alongside iPhone OS 3.0. It lets users browse through and view their remotely stored docs, but there doesn’t seem to be an offline component to the app (at least none is mentioned in Apple’s brief writeup) — though a feature that lets you email a download link to an iDisk file is welcome. Naturally, there are plenty of apps that already access iDisk, WebDAV, Google Docs and other online storage systems, and offer added functionality like local caching to boot, but it’s at least nice to have a bit of first party support when it comes to basic iDisk browsing for users who are already paying for the privilege — we just hope it grows into so much more.

[Thanks, Arya]

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Apple launching free iDisk iPhone app for viewing and sending stored docs — still no substitute for a file system originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 15

iPhone Application Sales Are So Tiny They Fit in a Floppy

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Sure, the iPhone Application Store is big business for developers and consumers. For Apple? Not so much. Like always, it’s all about selling hardware in Cupertino.

Since Apple doesn’t release detailed sales information for the iPhone App Store, this figure is just an approximation. LSVP is saying that Apple got about $45 million in total iPhone App Store sales for the last three quarters vs total sales of $25 billion. TechCrunch is saying $95 million, which is the number we have used for our illustration. Obviously, third-party iPhone apps are going to be less costly to sell, with no cost of manufacturing or design.

Still, the difference in total sales is staggering and the profit picture won’t be significantly different from this. The chart really gives a good idea on how incredibly tiny the app sales are compared to the company total business. [Based on data from LSVP TechCrunch via Mashable]

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May 04

iPhone OS 3.0’s parental controls to assuage some app submission woes?

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Here’s something that should help Trent reach a level of moderate contentment. Although we already knew that Apple was expanding its parental controls with iPhone OS 3.0 into the realm of TV shows, movies and App Store apps, a report today about the rejection of Makayama’s Newspaper(s) app provides a good example at the ramifications of such alterations. According to iLounge, it was rejected due to a picture of a topless woman under the section for UK-based tabloid The Sun. The accompanying letter suggested a resubmission once 3.0 (and subsequently the parental controls) go public, which we take to mean that the questionable content will suddenly be okay for the App Store once it’s behind the appropriate age gate. We won’t know for sure until everything falls into place, but sounds like this is one part of the submission approval process that’ll soon end up much less frustrating for developers.

[Via 9 to 5 Mac]

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iPhone OS 3.0’s parental controls to assuage some app submission woes? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 May 2009 20:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 21

GamePark Wiz app store coming this summer

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We heard murmurings of a possible app store for GamePark’s Wiz open source handheld back when we first laid our hands on it, but now it’s officially on its way. GamePark Holdings’ awesomely-named Game Contents Open Store is now set to open in August, allowing all users to produce and download homebrewed apps and games for the Wiz. The SDK is currently in development, and there aren’t any further details beyond that, but we’ll keep our eyes peeled for you.

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GamePark Wiz app store coming this summer originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 17

Pogoplug iPhone app makes its way into the world

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Just in case you’ve been trying to worm your way into your network-connected hard drive via your phone, the folks at Pogoplug have made their iPhone application available, free of charge. After you’re done Skype’ing, you can check out some family photos. C’mon — you know you need those files.

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Pogoplug iPhone app makes its way into the world originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 10

Apple anxiously awaits the selling of their billionth App download celebration

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Apple’s going all out in anticipation of a landmark for the company — the downloading of one billion apps in the App store. Not bad for nine months of work, if you think about it: over 110 million a month, in fact. About 27 million a week… well, you get the idea. Oh yeah, they’re giving away a bunch of stuff too, so be sure to check that out if the mood strikes you.

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Apple anxiously awaits the selling of their billionth App download celebration originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 05

Savory for Kindle 2 automates PDF and EPUB conversions, doesn’t make James Patterson any more enjoyable

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We’ve seen surprisingly few Kindle 2 hacks ’round these parts, and therefore few apps that run on the beloved e-reader itself. One notable exception is Savory, which monitors the device’s Documents directory for files sporting either the .epub or .pdf extensions — when one of these guys rears its ugly head, it’s converted to a Kindle filetype. The only hitch is that the program (as currently available) chokes on image-based PDFs — according to the author, images in PDFs are fine, as long as there is some text to extract. Sure, the software doesn’t do anything that Amazon doesn’t already do for free — but it does make the conversion quick and painless. Ready to give it a go? Hit the read link for the files, and you’ll be mere moments away from all those terrific Left Behind books someone scanned and posted on The Pirate Bay. You’re welcome.

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Savory for Kindle 2 automates PDF and EPUB conversions, doesn’t make James Patterson any more enjoyable originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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