Jan 16

App Store hits 500 million downloads: thanks, iFart

Posted in: Apple, apps, AppStore, iPhone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, Today's Chili

Wowsers, that little App Store side project Apple has going on sure doesn’t seem to be settling down. After launching in July of ’08 and hitting 100 million downloads in September, the App Store has just crossed the 500 million download mark — a mere six months after opening. Compare that to the iTunes Music Store, which took two whole years to cross the 500 million mark, though to be fair we have little idea of the paid to free ratio of app downloads. There are over 15,000 apps in the App Store currently, and sure, 14,500 of them are crap, with the rest being tip calculators, but we gotta hand it to Apple for pretty much unprecedented success in the mobile download space — now let us download SNES emulators!

[Thanks, Richard]

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Jan 02

Apple patent reveals ‘iPhone gloves’ for warmer hands-on experience

Posted in: Apple, capacitive, iPhone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, patent, patents, Today's Chili, touchscreen

A new Apple patent has been found that will assuredly warms the hearts (and hands) of many iPhone users currently enduring a cold winter. Originally filed a day before the iPhone’s June 28, 2007 launch, it details a glove with a thin, electrically conductive, “anti-sticky” inner layer that is able to function with a capacitive touchscreen. It also suggests the glove could have apertures on the fingertips for opening and closing the more protective outer layer. Of course, the concept is far from new — just do a quick Google search for “iPhone gloves” to see a wide variety of choices — and Apple doesn’t really dabble in this sort of iPhone / iPod accessory, but if Phil keeps his hands in his pockets for the first half of the Macworld keynote, we’re gonna start to get ideas.

[Via Apple Insider; thanks, Shawn]

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Dec 31

Apple rumor roundup: aluminum Mac minis and supersized iPod touches

Posted in: Apple, ipod touch, IpodTouch, netbook, netbooks, rumor, rumors, Today's Chili

Listen, you know the drill by now: Macworld is less than a week away, and that causes a Cupertino-sized rumor mill to fill up with hints of new / refreshed hardware of all shapes and sizes. The crew at TUAW claim they’ve heard from sources that a new Mac mini will be unveiled with an aluminum finish, a Time Capsule-esque “lip,” and a SATA optical drive that can be customized as a second HDD instead. Additionally, TechCrunch says it has three independent sources that confirm there’s a large iPod touch is coming next Fall with a 7 or 9-inch screen. There’s no indication if they expect a Macworld announcement here, but if true, we expect the cargo pants industry to react accordingly. Finally, and possibly related to the TechCrunch rumor, a Taiwan news site claims Quanta Computers is expecting to add Apple and Sony (is that you, Vaio P?) as clients for manufacturing netbooks in 2009. For those playing along at home, at some point next year we should expect a bigger iPod touch, a netbook, a smaller iPhone, a revised iMac, a revised Mac mini, and absolutely no love at all for the Mac Pro.

Read – Large form iPod touch to launch Fall ’09
Read – Rumor watch: new Mac mini go for launch
Read – Quanta expects zero YoY NB shipment growth in Q4, 2008

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Apple rumor roundup: aluminum Mac minis and supersized iPod touches originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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