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A short month after announcing 85,000 apps in the iTunes store, recent metrics are hinting that Apple has approved over 100,000 applications for the iPhone (although only about 93,000 are currently available for download). All jokes about the proliferation of fart apps aside, the rate of growth and activity in the iPhone’s app market is nothing short of meteoric and has had many other manufacturers scrambling to get their own application stores up and running. While iTunes might be the original, it’s quickly becoming oversaturated; that’s good news for internal competition, but it does have a lot of developers looking to burgeoning on-device markets like webOS, Android, and BlackBerry where they’ll have an easier time to make a name for themselves. In any case, good on iPhone for reaching this landmark, and developers, keep ‘em coming.
[via Mashable]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
