There will over 300,000 Apple iPhone and iPod Touch Apps before 2011

The iPhone App market and the App Store seem to be enjoying the attention it has been showered upon; thanks to the records it has been creating. After the much hullabaloo leading to the 1 billion iPhone app downloads saga, now comes the news from the market research firm IDC who has predicted that there will be 300,000 iPhone apps by 2010 end.

While Apple prominently figures in IDC's top 10 predictions for the coming year, released on Thursday, this is an indication enough to prove that Apple iPhone is nonetheless a revolutionary smartphone changing the mobile world for ever. Going by recent statistics, the iPhone is compatible with more than 100,000 applications that are available for download through the Apple App Store. And if IDC’s predictions are to be believed, the App store would have three times as many applications by the end of 2010.

IDC report: iPhone application momentum to grow

The IDC report has predicted at least 300,000 iPhone applications by the end of 2010, when many of the new apps coming from well-known Global 2000 business and consumer brands. These are slated to attract more consumers and businesspeople as their most frequently and profoundly used clients.

It is a fantastic record considering the fact that just only a year ago, the App Store had approximately 10,000 applications. And one year later in November, 2009 Apple has put up an announcement that it had reached the 100,000 milestone less than a year and a half after its debut; which marks an annual growth rate of 900%. The report further mentions that Google Android devices would get access to around 50,000 to 75,000 applications around the same time.

IDC report: Over 1 billion mobile devices to access the Internet in 2010

Market research firm IDC has predicted for the first time that more than 1 billion mobile devices will access the Internet by the end of the year 2010, which is 25 times faster in comparison to the 1.3 billion PCs accessing the Internet. Apart from Apple iPhone, the IDC report includes the RIM's BlackBerry and Nokia's smartphone lineup.

There are also an increasing number of phones running Microsoft's Windows Mobile, Google's Android, and Symbian^1 (notably Nokia). The report further mentions that more than 200 million of these devices, which are distinguished by their ability to run third-party applications — will be shipped in 2010. This represents 16% of the market IDC predicts by 2013, accounting for over 20%. What are your thoughts on the IDC report? Share your thoughts.

from IDC

Apple MacBook MB403LL/A 13.3-inch Laptop/Notebook Review

Stylishly and intelligently designed for your on-the-go digital lifestyle, Apple’s MacBook is the perfect confluence of affordability, innovation, and powerful computing. This latest iteration of the MacBook line (model MB403LL/A) gets a boost of speed from Intel’s latest 45-nanometer Penryn series processors, which also helps to reduce power requirements and save on battery life. You’ll enjoy quick and nimble multitasking thanks to the 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, and this MacBook also features a 160 GB hard drive and 2 GB of installed RAM (which can be upgraded to 4 GB). The 13.3-inch glossy widescreen display provides the perfect combination of pixels and portability, and the integrated 802.11n Wi-Fi LAN enables computing freedom from wires and compatibility with older 802.11b/g routers as well as the faster throughput of Apple’s Airport Extreme.

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Apple's iPhone is the number one phone in the land in the world

Not just smart phone mind you.  Phone.  Apple's iconic gadget phone which can only be had for $200-$300 with two year data plan outsold every mobile (and land line too, whynot?) phone.  From the $25 dollar pay as you go phones to Blackberries and Sidekicks and all of the fallen iPhone killers in between. The Motorola Razr which you can get for less than free with a plan had been the best seller for the better part of the last three years.  Not any more.

NPD has the news today..specifically that iPhone is the number one phone amongst adult consumer shoppers.   The business market is smaller than consumer and the children's market is nuch less significant than the adult market so can't we just say overall?  Or perhaps more Blackberries sold in the enterprise.  Anyway, the point is clear.  iPhone is on top.

That means in a few months, you'll probably be more likely to see an iPhone in someone's hands than a Razr.  It also means that iPhone has reached critical mass.  Non-techies can confidently pick one up as well. They'll of course have heard it is a best seller.  This is of course fantastic news for the iPhone development community who now have millions more potential customers.

If this all sounds familiar for an Apple product, it really looks like Apple's iPhone is hitting the trajectory that the iPod line had hit.  It is really the market leader in the smartphone space. 

And things are only looking up.  JD Power's annual survey of phone satisfaction came out recently with the iPhone on top.

Oh and don't forget it is twice as reliable as a blackberry and three times as reliable as the Treo.  That, and really cool new apps are coming out for the App Store that are pushing the limits of what a gadget has been traditionally able to do.

Finally, there have even been a few rumors of price drops happening should keep iPhone up there with the leaders. 

source:computerworld.com

Use an iPhone or iPod Touch in disk mode with DiskAid

One of the first things that iPhone and iPod Touch users noticed was the lack of a built-in "disk mode," where your device would appear on the desktop as a drive that you could use for file storage. Other iPod models even had a setting to specify how much of their storage space should be used for music, and how much should be used for disk mode, but the latest and greatest ones didn't. But thanks to an app called DiskAid, you can still transfer files between your iPhone and your Mac or PC without jailbreaking or using iTunes.

Sure, you may already know how to access a jailbroken iPhone's hard drive via SFTP, but that's a pain in the butt compared to DiskAid. You can just plug your device in, start it up, and start transferring files in a straightforward interface that anybody who's ever used Windows Explorer or the OS X Finder can figure out. As a brief disclaimer, realize that storing files on your iPhone doesn't mean your iPhone can interact with them. It's like putting music on an old iPod in disk mode: you can store it there, but you can't play it.

Source: downloadsquad.com

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