The iTunes App Store has used less than 100 days to add another billion app dowloads, bringing the new total count to an impressive 3 billion since launch less than 18 months ago, and there are no signs that it is slowing down anytime soon.
Evil animals have broken into Santa’s grotto on the northpole and he needs help collecting all the presents for the children. Santa’s Sack is a simple, fun, and addictive game for the iPhone and iPod Touch that will keep you entertained for Christmas.
Orange has just launched their first ever iPhone app by bringing the Orange Wednesday experience to iPhone and iPod Touch owners in the UK. The app features functionality for getting the 2-for-1 deal codes as well as getting cinema listings and movie reviews.
The iTunes App Store can now officially say it has over 100,000 applications available to download for the iPhone and iPod Touch, but is it quantity over quality? We have looked at the growth of the iTunes App Store and how we use the growing number of apps.
Jamie Oliver brings his cooking skills to you directly on your iPhone with one of the best iPhone apps around, the Jamie 20 minute meals app. This app gives you 50 of Jamie’s favourite dishes with illustrated guides and shopping list integration that even i could follow.
As Apple announces the opening of in-app purchases for free iPhone and iPod Touch apps, we are asking what wider impact this might have on the app economy going forward. Will in-app purchases lead to higher cost for the most popular apps, or will it just improve the overall business model for everyone?
A recent tweet by Facebook iPhone App developer Joe Hewitt confirms that the popular Facebook App will soon come with a push notification upgrade, in upgrade Facebook 3.1. Before then however there will be a bug fix upgrade. Find out more about coming upgrades here.
Adobe has announced that the coming Adobe Flash Professional CS5 developers tool will feature functionality for turning flash applications into native iPhone apps, making it the first important step towards bringing more flash compatibility to the iPhone. There is still a way to go though.
At the recent FOWA conference in London Digg founder Kevin Rose revealed that they are working on an official Digg iPhone App. It was not an official announcement, but two bloggers attending the conference picked up that he was playing with the app on his iPhone.
