http://www.tidbits.com/ This iPhone thing? It's probably going to catch on, if Apple's announcement of reaching the 100,000 apps available in the App Store is any indication. But just because Apple's App Store has 8 times more apps than the second place store doesn't mean smooth sailing unless Apple can conquer the discoverability problem that's scaring off developers. en-us Copyright 2009 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:14:06 PST Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:14:06 PST editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) http://www.tidbits.com/images/tb_logo_152x55.png http://www.tidbits.com/ 55 152 TidBITS badge http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716?rss#comments_2067 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:14:05 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716#comments_2067
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Remember the question we used to ask of Windows: "What's the point of having 100,000 apps, if the six you want are on the Mac?". How did we get into the 'mine's bigger than yours' game?]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716?rss#comments_1956 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:27:25 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716#comments_1956 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716?rss#comments_1951 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:22:41 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716#comments_1951 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716?rss#comments_1922 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:54:16 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716#comments_1922 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716?rss#comments_1919 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:42:50 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716#comments_1919 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716?rss#comments_1915 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:32:04 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716#comments_1915
Thanks for the details on the Symbian versions. I figured it was something like that, but couldn't determine it from the store itself.

I'll be very curious to see how Apple handles different resolution screens if the much-rumored Apple Tablet ever appears.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716?rss#comments_1914 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:30:17 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716#comments_1914 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716?rss#comments_1910 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:36:14 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716#comments_1910 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716?rss#comments_1905 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:23:32 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716#comments_1905 Counting apps just in the manufacturer's own store is perhaps a little unfair to the other guys.
Nokia's Ovi store is also notoriously lacking with many developers on Symbian not wanting their apps on it. The difference in numbers between phones on Ovi is dependent on which version of Symbian - eg. S60 v3 Feature Pack 1 or 2 for most of the non-touch phones or S60 v5 for the touch models. Screen sizes vary too hence the E71's software catalogue being landscape but N series being portrait.
Apple avoids all that by essentially having one model. It'll maybe change when they introduce a different screen size which they'll surely have to do soon to catch up with the latest models from competitors with higher resolution screens.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716?rss#comments_1902 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:23:41 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716#comments_1902 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716?rss#comments_1897 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:50:43 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716#comments_1897 http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716?rss#comments_1896 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:52:59 PST http://db.tidbits.com/article/10716#comments_1896