Apple has declared it now has over 1,00,000 apps, created by the developers for the App store. This store is claimed to be the largest application store in the world.
These apps are designed for different people with diverse tastes. The categories comprises of games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel. iPhone users from over 77 countries can download these apps. It is estimated that App store users have downloaded over two billion apps, thereby making it one of the most popular application store.
Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, commented, “The App Store, now with over 100,000 applications available, is clearly a major differentiator for millions of iPhone and iPod touch customers around the world. The iPhone SDK created the first great platform for mobile applications and our customers are loving all of the amazing apps our developers are creating.”
Apple carries on enhancing search and discovery with new attributes counting Genius for Apps, App Store Essentials selections, sub category listings and more important user appraisals. It is now pretty easy for the user to arrange and sync their apps right in iTunes and they can mechanically materialize on their iPhone with the same layout thanks to the newly launched iTunes 9.
Travis Boatman, vice president of Worldwide Studios, EA Mobile, stated, “The App Store has forever changed the mobile gaming industry and continues to improve. With a global reach of over 50 million iPhone and iPod touch users, the App Store has allowed us to develop high quality EA games that have been a huge success with customers.”
The introduction of iPhone OS 3.0 facilitated over 100 new attributes available to iPhone users. These applications boast of cut, copy and paste; MMS and landscape view for mail, text and notes. They also include stereo Bluetooth; shake to shuffle; parental controls; automatic login at Wi-Fi hot spots and Push Notifications.
The lately released In App Purchase feature for free apps means that top developers can now offer users the option of purchasing content, subscriptions and digital services from directly within their apps.