It’s a devasting increase in the number of Apps in AppleStore had. According to Apple, during the period in August, Apple reach a total of 65,000 Applications in 2009. And also take note that App store only opened its doors in July 2008. Within a year the number has significantly arise. It’s such a remarkable feat to see how much the app store have progressed. One thing The SDK (Software Developers Kit) allows developers to create applications using Xcode that will natively run on the iPhone and iPod Touch. This way people are able to post their creations online and share it with the world to download.
Technology have advance so much. According to the post on mashable website, Apps which are games take about 16% of the appstore. Due to its reasonable pricing, Applications in Apple store are highly affordable and interactive. The picture at the bottom shows a pie chart of the percentage of different applications. It contributes the largest amount in the app store. Looking at games alone, it have really progress a lot since the olden days. It use to be spinning tops back then. After a while technology took over and computer games started and it slowly involved. Games will always be a part of everyone’s life. Now, games have totally taken to a new level by making ir MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) which allows users to interact with someone around the world. Making the world an advance place to live in. After MMORPG came out, portable handheld consoles started to generate as well. For example, the Playstation Portable aka PSP is a handheld console gaming platform which allows users to play games on the platform.
After PSP came out, Apple decided to launch Ipod touch, a touch screen device which uses static to detect instead of pressure. With the launch of ipod touch, not long Apple decided to come out with the Iphone, a touchscreen handphone. With this 2 prodcuts from Apple, App store open its doors allowing users to download Applications for it. The first few applications were obviously games as it is able to interact with the user. Not long after that, Electronic books also known as Ebooks started to be publish which were entitled to download. Right now, just by boarding the crowded MRT or bus in the morning, you would be able to see people looking at their iphones/ipod touch or figiting with it. Cause nowadays carrying a book and reading it is no longer relevant, a book can jus be downloaded on the iphone/ipod touch for the user to view. Instead of flipping the pages, users just have to scroll it using their index finger.
In time to come, i predict that app store will come out with applications that would be able to play online as well making it competitive in the IT industry.
Source: “http://mashable.com/2009/11/04/app-store-100k/“
Source:”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store“
The picture below is taken from: “http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/?mpage=catcount“
