Comments on: App Store Averaging Millions of Downloads Each Day

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:39:07 +0000

For me the updates don’t work sometimes. I can open iTunes, and click Applications in the sidebar, and it says I have 3 updates available. Then I click the arrow at the bottom and it shows me like 15 apps that need to be updated.

I always update directly from the iPhone, because I never seem to have any problems from there. I have had it where it says there are all kinds of programs that have been updated when in reality there are only one or two.

Omar Upegui wrote:

What will happen if Steve Jobs is not around anymore? What will happen to those spectacular product innovations? Who will be the next Apple Guru? These are questions that hover nervously over the future of a company that has dazzled all of us with unbelievable products and services.

I'm wondering the same thing. I think at this point they've recruited enough talented people that can design great things, and so it shouldn't be a problem. It's just a matter of who will people think of when they hear "Apple".

Change wrote:

Ryan, wasn’t Apple going to open up a beta store, where selected people (selected by the developer) would be able to download versions not reviewed by Apple yet?

Yep, they are supposed to. There's no word as to when that will happen, but I think it's going to be a pain the butt since the developers will need to hand select each Beta user. Plus there can't be more than 100 testers for any particular app.

Shadow wrote:

Looks like the paid applications in the Appstore are getting hacked and cracked already. http://gizmodo.com/5030139/iph.....s-hackable

That's interesting, but you will need to have a Jailbroken iPhone in order to do that.

By: Shadow

Shadow — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:12:59 +0000

Looks like the paid applications in the Appstore are getting hacked and cracked already.

[gizmodo.com]+-all-apps-hackable

By: Change

Change — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:03:03 +0000

Very interesting comment Omar. I truly hope Steve can “train” the others at Apple to keep this mindset, or a potential successor with the values that made him do what he does, or that Apple can find a similarly innovative leader (which is gonna be almost impossible looking at other companies). You’re right that it is astounding what they have accomplished so far.

Ryan, wasn’t Apple going to open up a beta store, where selected people (selected by the developer) would be able to download versions not reviewed by Apple yet?

By: Omar Upegui

Omar Upegui — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:44:04 +0000

It’s absolutely astounding how Apple has developed into a global company in consumer electronics. From a strict computer company it has diversified into other domains with masterful strikes.

Products like Apple II, Macinstosh, iMac, iPod and iPhone have made a deep impact in American lifestyle. Apple blends easily with DisneyWorld, MacDonalds, the New York Yankees, hamburgers and 4th of July fireworks. What really worries me is that Apple is equivalent to Steve Jobs and the other way around.

What will happen if Steve Jobs is not around anymore? What will happen to those spectacular product innovations? Who will be the next Apple Guru? These are questions that hover nervously over the future of a company that has dazzled all of us with unbelievable products and services.

By: Max

Max — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:51:40 +0000

For me the updates don’t work sometimes. I can open iTunes, and click Applications in the sidebar, and it says I have 3 updates available. Then I click the arrow at the bottom and it shows me like 15 apps that need to be updated. If I do the same thing again (go to Apps, check for updates), it says there are no updates. So there are some bugs, but it’s a pretty good service still. The only thing I don’t like is the restrictions of the SDK so developers can’t do everything they want in the apps and a lot of jailbreak apps don’t make the cut.