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The best way to describe the App Store is to look at just what it can provide visitors with. The App Store is an online marketplace that sell products specifically manufactured to be compatible with the IPhone, IPad, and IPod Touch. Most applications that can be purchased through the App Store are going to be free or have a minimal cost associated with them. After a purchase is made through the App Store, it can be directly downloaded to your device or onto your computer using the Apple ITunes service.
The App Store currently has approximately 160,000 individual applications that have garnered roughly 3.5 billion downloads since the store's opening in mid-July 2008. When the IPhone 3G was released, also in mid-July, it came preloaded with the capabilities of downloading content directly from the App Store. While the term "app store" is widely used in this industry, it is Apple that has the copyright on it.
An IPhone comes preloaded with different applications already loaded onto the device. The nice thing about purchasing apps from the App Store is that they can used and removed from the device at the consumer's discretion whereas the preloaded apps cannot be removed. Anyone can create an "app," but they are subject by approval from Apple, which has caused some controversy in terms of what is and is not acceptable.
You'll find bloggers talking about App Store at sites like the iPad blog and macrumors.
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Tumblr , which was purchased by Yahoo today for a cool $1.1 billion , received an update for iPhone and iPad today that introduces a new post type chooser that resembles fan stacks on the dock in OS X but still includes a 17+ rating . The update also includes attributing app sources to posts shared on ...1 day ago -
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It’s been a big day for the folks over at Tumblr . Earlier this morning, the microblogging network confirmed the weekend’s speculation that it is has agreed to an acquisition deal with Yahoo! , said to be worth over $1 billion. And shortly after the news was revealed, an update for Tumblr’s iOS app posted in ...1 day ago -
Esquire Launches A New Weekly Magazine On iPad
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Man wins £6,550 for downloading 50 billionth app from Apple App Store
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A man has won a $10,000 (£6,550) App Store Gift Card for downloading the 50 billionth app from the Apple App Store. Apple announced in a press release , “Apple today announced that customers have downloaded over 50 billion apps from the revolutionary App Store. Customers are downloading more than 800 apps per ...1 day ago -
TalkTo Text-to-Business for iPhone Adds Improved Search Interface
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TalkTo is a free service that launched in Canada back in February . It allows iPhone users to text their questions to any business and receive a reply. Today’s 1.2 update brings a slightly revamped search interface and the main screen now has larger and clearer buttons along the bottom. What’s New in Version ...1 day ago -
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Pope Benedict XVI was the first pontiff to open a Twitter account. Now his predecessor, Pope Francis, has released the Vatican’s first official iOS app, Missio. Available for free, the universal app was created by the Pontifical Mission Societies. It was officially launched and blessed by the new leader of the ...2 days ago -
iPhone App Store hits 50 billion downloads!
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Apple’s hit a huge milestone today: it’s passed a staggering 50 billion downloads on the App Store for iOS devices, and one lucky winner’s picked up a massive prize along the way. Since it launched in June 2008, more than 50,000,000,000 apps and games have been downloaded on the iTunes App Store ...2 days ago -
Apple removes "Bang With Friends" from the App Store
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Apple removes "Bang With Friends" from the App Store
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After less than 10 days on the App Store, Apple this past week gave the boot to "Bang With Friends" , an app that seemingly runs afoul of Apples efforts to keep the App Store as reasonably wholesome and free of smut as possible. In case youre unfamiliar, "Bang With Friends" is an app that seeks to match up Facebook ...2 days ago
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