Apple App Store Hits 10B App Download Mark 195
alphadogg writes "The Apple App Store hit the 10 billion app download mark overnight on Friday, marking a milestone involving an awful lot of Doodle Jump, Tap Tap Revenge and Angry Birds playing, not to mention Facebook and Pandora usage. The Apple App Store hit the 1 billion mark in April of 2009, after opening in July of 2008. Apple is rewarding the downloader of the 10 billionth free or paid App Store app with a $10,000 iTunes gift card in a bit of showmanship that Willy Wonka would be proud of. As of 7AM EST, however, Apple hadn't publicly identified the winner, only saying that you'd need to come back later to find out who won. Apple put an iOS app countdown ticker on its Website last week to build buzz around the milestone and generated about 250 million app downloads since. It also revealed a list of all-time most downloaded free and paid iPhone and iPad apps." The winner of the $10k is Gail Davis, a British woman whose children installed an app without her knowledge. She actually thought the phone call from Apple was a prank at first. "My daughters told me they had downloaded it and they knew there was a competition and that we may have won it," she told BBC Radio 5 Live.
Kids these days (Score:5, Interesting)
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Back in the 1980's one of my friends who had cable at the time used to order pay per view and swear to his mother it was an accident
Same here. Don't ever let your kids have the ability to automatically buy something
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Kids, eh. Many of them don't know the difference between "who's" and "whose".
Re:Kids these days (Score:5, Interesting)
Er, that's not very similar. These kids downloaded a free app without their mother's knowledge. Your kids are thieves.
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which would still require them having the itunes password of the mother, if the mothers account was used
if she has a credit card coupled to her itunes account, they could have downloaded anything
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Isn't another difference that you don't get money back on most debit cards? (e.g. I get 1% or more back on various credit cards, for various types of purchases.)
Again, I said _most_. I do see Target advertizing theirs with 5% back.
Great, but... (Score:5, Insightful)
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I miss the Apple that made great hardware (although a little bit overpriced), and a nice OS to go with it
They still make great hardware and a nice OS to go with it. It may not be directly targeted at the geek crowd that browses Slashdot (although it can work great for those people too) but to the average person on the street it matches pretty well with what they are looking for in a computer/phone/browsing device.
Of course this isn't a popular thought here on Slashdot but hey, who needs karma anyway? I've been karma capped for years and it's all-too-easy to make up the few mod points I'll get hit for posting s
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Of course this isn't a popular thought here on Slashdot but hey, who needs karma anyway?
Apparently you do, because your karma whine got the +5, as it usually does on Slashdot.
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Agreed .... No wait, what am I saying? Real geeks value function over form!
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I think Apple realizes they will always be between 5-8% market share on the desktop, so why not focus on the 75% market share of iDevices instead?
I'm a very contented OS X user and my wife uses OSX even in her University Computer Science program, so it's not like it's a 'bad' thing you don't hear as much about OSX as you do iDevices.
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I remember geeks' denials:
1) When dumb terminals were going to kill the pc.
2) When smart phones were going to kill the pc.
3) When cloud computing was going to kill the pc.
4) Insert your favorite vapor/fluffware here.
And I'll see your sarcastic reminiscing and raise you an "I remember, many moons ago, when PC first beat Mac on Photoshop benchmarks." The natives were restless that night...
Also, I think an (old?) geek is one of the most conservative, unimaginative and entrenched personalities in our culture (v
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I don't know what site you're visiting, but posters on Slashdot have been vehemently trashing Apple for the last 12 months.
There's plenty of people on all sides of the issues. Open source, free software, DMCA, DRM, Apple, Linux, Microsoft, BSD, USA, Europe, China, Conservative, Liberal, Libertarian, vi, emacs, blah blah blah.
So many fanboys mad with power and modpoints!
I just find it sad when people use the moderation system to disagree with posters rather than reward people for adding to the discussion. An open and rewarding debate is good for everyone. Yeah I like Apple's stuff but I also cheer for Linux, Microsoft, and other
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Am I the only one who mods down all the participants of OS wars, regardless of side?
I'm sure nobody but you gets enough mod points.
OS X is in no way backgrounded (Score:5, Informative)
has put Macs and OS X to the background is not so nice and geeky anymore.
That's not at all true. OS X and the computers they make have been updated with around the sam regularity as before. And if Apple was putting OS X in the background why would they have just launched a whole App Store dedicated to the Mac? If anything they are trying strongly to migrate some portion of the very large developer base they have amassed into doing Mac software too.
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The new App Store for OS X is just Apple trying to get a cut of the 3rd party software market for OS X.
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"The new App Store for OS X is just Apple trying to get a cut of the 3rd party software market for OS X."
Oh right, because that was SUCH a massive amount of money before.
Pretty obviously, it's an attempt to increase software development on OS X by showing iOS developers how easy it is to use the same skills they have been using in iOS development on the Mac.
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Absolutely right, and I would say it goes further than that.
The iphone/pad is a hook, a carrot on a stick, to drag people away from PC's. I was PC/Linux all the way until I got an iPhone, then I thought, hell if the phones are this good, maybe their computers are too. They were, now we are a 100% mac household, however upsetting that may be to some!
Apple are a business at the end of the day, they want to make money. What better way than to tap into the 90% of home desktop users that don't yet have an OSX se
UNIX (Score:4, Insightful)
While they might not have put OSX into the background they do seem to be putting the environment & UI there. They seem to be trying to shift the usage from a few apps that do a lot to dozens of small apps that each do a few specific tasks.
Which is the UNIX approach to dong things, which has worked out very well for a long time.
Great monolithic applications are the exception, not the norm. It's a lot easier to write very useful software if you target it to a specific use.
It wouldn't surprise me if they shift to a more iOS user interface and phase out the taskbar
That would surprise me a great deal since on a device where primary input is a mouse, you need something like the dock.
They can also be the gatekeeper for all your private data shared between your apps.
Only if everything went through the cloud. But Apple is a practical company, and they know networking is inherantly a secondary service, something you cannot rely on always being present. Remember they are still not letting iOS users sync over the internet, requiring a local computer - does THAT sound like someone who is going to act as any kind of "gateway" for anyone?
If you are looking for gateways of content, look no further than Android I'd say as that sounds exactly like something Google would want to do (if nothing else than to collect data about what you sync!).
the app store censorship drives jailbraking and fo (Score:2)
the app store censorship drives jailbraking and for mac os to go that way will be very bad for it.
and for locking down data shared between your apps what are you going to for users to have to upload big movies and photos to cloud? US ISP upload sucks.
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the app store censorship drives jailbraking and for mac os to go that way will be very bad for it.
Actually that system works out really well for iOS. Your statement makes it sound like Jailbreaking is bad.
In iOS, you have a very secure system for the beginning user, and if they choose to learn more about the system they can open it up further.
However I don't see that happening to OS X anytime soon. Computers are the way they are and you can't really transition it to a more closed model. I think Apple has
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There is having a safer place for apps but censorship bans should not be part of that.
What if a I or a user wants a safe sex or fart or joke app?
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There is having a safer place for apps but censorship bans should not be part of that.
I find it a pretty grey area myself as far as there being a reason to disallow these things, but as long as web access has equal precedence then there is a way to get things that are banned...
And it's not like you can't get Fart apps aplenty.
Re:UNIX (Score:5, Insightful)
Which is the UNIX approach to dong things, which has worked out very well for a long time.
Great monolithic applications are the exception, not the norm.
That was the Unix way 20 years ago. Sadly, since the rise of the huge monolithic X-Window desktop frameworks like Gnome and KDE, it's no longer the case. Even XFCE isn't all that modular.
It would be nice if the open source world had an equivalent to 'Unix pipes' for a GUI environment - at the moment, Microsoft PowerShell is looking like the best step in that direction.
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It would be nice if the open source world had an equivalent to 'Unix pipes' for a GUI environment
DBUS handles most gui inter process communication these days. I can't think of anything powershell can do that could not be done over dbus, and it predates it.
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While they might not have put OSX into the background they do seem to be putting the environment & UI there. They seem to be trying to shift the usage from a few apps that do a lot to dozens of small apps that each do a few specific tasks.
Which is the UNIX approach to dong things, which has worked out very well for a long time.
So how do you pipe iApps together to perform more complex tasks?
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The other answer relates to OS X, but you asked about iApps - there are two mechanisms, one is simply URL handling where you know what other applications can handle a specific data type and you call a URL to pass information (or files).
The other way is file type handling, for instance images - any application can register to be a JPG handler and any application can present a dialog asking for another application you would like to use to open a file.
In practice the biggest use of the approach is through a ce
Re:UNIX (Score:4, Informative)
Which is the UNIX approach to dong things, which has worked out very well for a long time.
So how do you pipe iApps together to perform more complex tasks?
AppleScript and Automator
Instead of being limited to only stdin, stdout, and stderr, they let you pipe objects between apps and even let you put the end result as text to use with stdin on a command line tool and back again.
There are plenty of examples [macworld.com] for both [macworld.com] languages on how to do most scripting/piping tasks with not just iApps but most OS X applications.
Script editor even lets you compile your apple scripts and automations down to applications, which gives you the same functionality as a shell script starting with #!/bin/bash and being chmod +x
Here is a nice screen shot [macosxautomation.com] of the GUI Automator editor showing the apps it can put together, some actions in the app it has selected, and the methodology for putting together each bit of the script you want to do, coincidentally using an iApp.
For anyone who's good at Excel formulas or macros, Automator will be a snap. Similarly, anyone used to shell scripting will find Apple script just as easy.
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Don't forget about services [macworld.com] which allow a way to use functionality offered by one application from within another. OSX has a lot of nice geek features, making the hate directed against it here sometimes all the more baffling.
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I'm not saying the way they handle their portables is perfect or what I'd like but their laptops and desktops are still excellent and make wintel machines feel cheap and awful.
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It's effectively like having a polish Linux system
I.e., it's like this [pld-linux.org]?
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The selling point was that I could get an education discount because of my employer which more importantly meant the best warranty possible from Apple for something like £35 or £40 and there is an Apple shop just down the road if I do happen to need
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When they abandoned Classic they made it so that a tremendous amount of software is no longer useable and will die out.
You can still run a lot of those Classic Mac OS X apps, here's some links for you:
What software is not being re-written? (Score:2)
The Intel switch happened long ago. The only software I can think of that's not really been re-writen that is a major loss, is Framemaker. Apple was actually amazingly good about supporting older software for as long as they could, with Rosetta and making compiling Mac applications to universal binaries fairly easy. In fact I don't know if there's a single OS maker that has EVER been able to transition architectures the way Apple did and thrive instead of die (though a large part of that of course was sw
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Don't forget they not only did it once, but *twice* from 68k to PPC and then to Intel, and strongly supported the transitions each time, with a considerable tail off to enable backwards compatibility.
I have a scanner plugin written for OS9 that still works to this day in Photoshop CS on 10.6.6 - so that's a Classic plugin, running inside a PPC app, on top of an Intel-only version of the OS, and it all works fine (albeit slowly since Rosetta-translated Photoshop is slower than a native x86 app, but I cannot
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I forgot about the 68K transition, which was so smooth I hardly noticed... great point.
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I talk about this: soon Apple's core business will be the iPhone, the iPad and iOS, with the Macs and OS X a secondary product, with less attention from Apple. There, I said it.
I bet 3 years ago you said the same s/iPhone, the iPad and iOS/iPod/ - others sure did.
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It's as if you knew beforehand that generic, non-specific Apple criticism would get an instant "+5 Insightful." Oh, wait, this is Slashdot.
Oh, and I don't care about modding, my karma is maxed out already. :) It's just my opinion.
So where are their Golden Arches? (Score:3, Funny)
The question being... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:The question being... (Score:5, Funny)
Sign up as a dev with a single useless hello world app for $10000...then buy it with the gift card?
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Sign up as a dev with a single useless hello world app for $10000...then buy it with the gift card?
Yeah, but after Apple takes their cut you'll be left with $12.
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Sign up as a dev with a single useless hello world app for $10000...then buy it with the gift card?
You mean fart app don't you?
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Ditch cable for life. (Score:3)
I don't think the money has an expiration date on it. You could buy a meager 5 albums per year at $10 each, 4 seasons of television shows at $50 a piece, and rent 12 movies per year at $4 a pop, for a total of $300/year, and would run out out of money in 33 years.
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Yes. Any iTunes gift certificate is shared between all of the stores, iBooks, iTunes and Mac App store. I redeemed a gift certificate on my iPad and the balance showed up automatically on the Mac App store on my computer. Of course, they are both signed into the same Apple ID.
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I checked my account on the Mac App Store and it matches that of my iTunes credit balance.
Re:The question being... (Score:4)
This doesn't compute (Score:2)
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OK, let's do some very, very rough calculations here: assume that there are six billion people on the planet and that a third of them own a computer with Internet access. That's two billion. Assume that Mac users are 10% of that group. that's 200 million. In order to account for 10 billion apps, the mean downloads/person would be 50. Really? Since the vast majority of Mac users already had the apps they needed before the store opened, I find this very hard to believe.
Never mind...I forgot that the app store is for iPhones, iPods, and and iWhatevers. Save your flames for more important things.
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No, you're right. Apple claims 160 million iOS devices. So this averages to 62 per device. I have 3 - an iPhone that I use, an iPhone that the company bought for testing and an iPod Touch the company bought for testing. I have about 20 apps on my personal device and 2 or 3 on the others. My wife has an iPhone and she doesn't have 60 apps downloaded to it. I think they are counting any download which includes upgrades.
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I've probably downloaded 50 free apps from the app store for my iPhone, they all suck and have mostly been deleted, but it's not that tricky!
Re:This doesn't compute (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah a lot of people take the 'download all the free apps you can find, try them and delete the bad ones' approach. Easy to get to 10B that way. If they were all paid apps (even cheapo ones at $1.99 or whatever) they probably wouldn't have even got to 1B yet.
Re:This doesn't compute (Score:4, Insightful)
Funny how I didn't hear any such objections when it was "Mozilla passes X million downloads". In fact, it was all hyped up how much one download could be a thousand corporate PCs. So it's not comparable to say iTunes sales, but it shows that free apps is a big reason people get an iPhone. Plus it's rather disingenuous attempt to imply that free downloads are worthless. Downloads of the Facebook app is very valuable to both Apple and Facebook, even if they aren't charging you for it. Sure there's trivial apps but it's like Firefox's endless extensions, some of them are pretty damn worthless but you don't hear people complain about that, at least not on slashdot.
It's not exactly news that Apple-bashing has been popular here since the first iPod. Not to mention the vastly exaggerated claims of open source being the source of Apple's success. So they took a BSD kernel and adopted certain unixisms, but in terms of what sells Apple it's like bragging over delivering the plumbing to an award winning building design. Apple has done great and they've done it almost all on their own and none of the spotlight has even reflected on open source. I would bet that 99.99% of Apple's customers doesn't even know and wouldn't have known the difference if it had been some proprietary kernel.
Is everything perfect in Apple's walled garden? Of course not, but so far my experience with my iPhone has been great minus the people who wrote the alarm clock. Neither is it perfect in the One Microsoft Way, but it's hardly that in the Linux bazaar either. I'm sick and tired of these three phrases:
1. If you want it fixed, write a patch for it. That's the beauty of open source.
2. Well, you got what you paid for. You've got nothing to complain about.
3. If you dislike it so much, why don't you go back to Windows (Winblows, Micro$oft)?
It's the unholy trinity of "We don't have a problem, you do. Now fuck off." even if you complain about something that's obviously broken for a common use case and makes using it hopeless. And through anti-proprietary fanaticism there's usually not a single commercial alternative even if the money is burning in my pocket. I've pretty much decided to abandon Linux after 3.5 years as my primary desktop and go either Mac or Windows, I just haven't decided which yet. Because I want my choice back, if whatever open source delivers doesn't work I'll go buy something that (probably) does.
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It's talking about the iTunes Store. There is a lot of stuff on there, free stuff, paid stuff, app stuff, music stuff, video stuff, educational stuff. The average person with an iDevice has indeed downloaded 50 pieces of stuff from the app store since it opened and I think it will only go faster as more people go onto the iDevice.
A geek may not understand but the iPhone and iPod lineup is one of the most useful device lineups in the industry. I myself like my Nokia N800 but I can't give it to my wife, there
Slashdot is now officially pathetic (Score:2, Insightful)
It's pathetic how lame slashdot has gotten over the last few years.
10 billion of anything is an amazing number. 10 billion apps is amazing, especially given that the app store didn't even exist a few years ago. That means that a huge percentage of the installed base actually uses the app store. That's a lot of hits. That's a lot of usability thinking. That's a whole lot of infrastructure.
You haters who think Apple sucks - they have an infrastructure capable of billing, invoicing, tracking, and serving up 10
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Seriously, you think THAT is a big deal? How about Amazon, who not only does the billing, invoicing, tracking, serving, but also SHIPPING and RETURNS. Now THAT is an impressive feat.
"On March 26, 2010, Amazon had a higher market cap than Target Corporation, Home Depot, Costco, Barnes and Noble, and Best Buy, only lagging that of Walmart among American brick and mortar retailers"
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Seriously, you think THAT is a big deal? How about Amazon, who not only does the billing, invoicing, tracking, serving, but also SHIPPING and RETURNS. Now THAT is an impressive feat.
"On March 26, 2010, Amazon had a higher market cap than Target Corporation, Home Depot, Costco, Barnes and Noble, and Best Buy, only lagging that of Walmart among American brick and mortar retailers"
The difference is Amazon has been around since 1994, but the App Store has only been around for the past 2.5 years. (We're only counting apps, not music, here.)
Their explosive growth is impressive because:
- It shows their ability to get their users to actually buy and/or use the apps on their devices.
- It shows their ability to attract and gather a great number of developers in a short span of 2.5 years.
- It shows their ability to maintain an infrastructure sufficient to handle that traffic.
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When you have a separate app for such useful things as turning the screen black [apple.com] so it can be used as a mirror, well... excuse me if I'm not overly impressed about this achievement.
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When you have a separate app for such useful things as turning the screen black [apple.com] so it can be used as a mirror, well... excuse me if I'm not overly impressed about this achievement.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=android+mirror+app [lmgtfy.com]
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Goes to show that not only Apple has the fart app problem. Never said it's exclusive to them.
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10 billion of anything is an amazing number. 10 billion apps is amazing, especially given that the app store didn't even exist a few years ago. That means that a huge percentage of the installed base actually uses the app store. That's a lot of hits. That's a lot of usability thinking. That's a whole lot of infrastructure.
You haters who think Apple sucks - they have an infrastructure capable of billing, invoicing, tracking, and serving up 10 billion plus items; the same infrastructure is used for iTunes. 1% of their traffic would crush your website.
MacDonalds have sold an estimated 245 Billion Hamburgers. Granted at brick and mortar stores. Granted not over as short a timeframe. But we're talking physical product not digital download. I guess that's 24.5 times as impressive and we're in the wrong business. That's it I'm quitting and practicing my "Would you like fries with that?"
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MacDonalds have sold an estimated 245 Billion Hamburgers. Granted at brick and mortar stores. Granted not over as short a timeframe. But we're talking physical product not digital download. I guess that's 24.5 times as impressive and we're in the wrong business. That's it I'm quitting and practicing my "Would you like fries with that?"
That's because you can't buy a hamburger once and eat it as often as you like. You can't even buy one hamburger and give one to every family member. If mum, dad and four children want an iPhone app, they download it once. If they want to eat one hamburger each, they have to buy six. And if they want another one tomorrow, they have to buy another six. Must be some evil scheme that McDonald's is running there.
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MacDonalds have sold an estimated 245 Billion Hamburgers.
Guess you didn't bother to notice the "the app store didn't even exist a few years ago" bit. MacD opened in 1955.
Engineering and Science at Work to Improve (Score:3)
Yes, yes, progress.
CC.
How much will it cost them? (Score:2)
We know about the 30% cut for applications, but what about music, movies and TV series?
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In terms of actual cash, I imagine they earn more interest on their cash reserves than the cost of eating $10,000 in iTunes store sales. They effectively bought $10,000 worth of PR.
God I love classic quotes (Score:2, Redundant)
It's been a few years since the last time I posted here. Anyways, this just goes to show how wrong was the, by now classic, quote on the original iPod launch by CmdrTaco almost 10 years ago:
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257 [slashdot.org]
Best,
What about those poor sods on an iPhone 3G? (Score:2)
Like me, for example.
Having shelled out 500€ on a phone only to see it deliberately crippled by the vendor after less than 2 years is annoying.
I don't care about their business strategy on platform fragmentation: Apple should either put iOS 3 on maintenance mode for a reasonable amount of time or tune iOS 4 to run unimpaired on an iPhone 3G.
This behavior is unacceptable.
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You don't have to pay tax on your winnings in the UK.
Or Canada, Germany, Australia, Italy, and a bunch of other places.
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You don't have to pay tax on your winnings in the UK.
Yes you do, if you didn't pay tax on the original bet. I don't know if this applies to competitions, but it does to wagers.
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...you can't buy physical Apple products.
I lived in England for several years. Most of my Apple hardware was purchased there. You are just making stuff up.
Re:and 10k is like what 3 mac pros? (Score:4, Informative)
the dual processor mac pro starts at $3500 and you only get 6gb ram and a 1TB hdd at that price. So 10k I can only get 2. But for 1.5k-2.5k you can get build one and get a real raid card / on board hardware raid.
Apple wants $700 more for a 4 port raid card. But high end server cards on the pc with more ports are like $300.
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more or less unlimited access to the iTunes store, while still something I'd like, would be a far less exciting prospect.
It's a nice way to ensure you get locked in. One of my friends has said a couple of times how he would have bought some non Apple products, but because of the library of TV series etc he already has on iTunes, he just stuck with Apple products.
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Yes, that's called convenience. Calling it lock-in makes you look petulant.
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Oops, misread your post...disregard.
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Misreading posts makes you look petulant ;)
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I used to be a fan of the Mac computers since I grew up with them, but my last MBP had serious issues with overheating (if you tried to play a 3D game for more than an hour and it would lock up), and many other people were reporting the same thing online. Apparently the MBP models after that were fine, but I've already decided I'm going to just avoid Apple laptops for a while, and buy devices that have decent Linux driver support. My current machine is a netbook that cost 1/4 of what the MBP, and the MBP is
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I have no problem believing your claim about your MacBook overheating when gaming. I've never had such an extreme case, but the heaviest loading I give my machines is with big compiles, since gaming doesn't rock my boat.
I found it especially irritating because I knew that the graphics card was actually underclocked as standard, but it still overheated even at the Apple approved clock rates.
When talking of functionality I wasn't even talking about the usability of the interface, just the functionality that you get for the price. For example when choosing my first ever MP3 player I went with the HP iRiver 120, which had a built in microphone for recording, FM radio, picture and text viewing (albeit in monochrome) all for les
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So sell your card on ebay and use the cash to buy hardware?
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AC's poor communication skills account for misunderstanding.
He should have said, "since you can't buy hardware with an iTunes card". Instead, what he wrote inferred that you can't buy Apple hardware in England.
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In what way obese? (Score:2, Insightful)
Apple is almost the exact opposite of Augustus, in that they are still a very lean company with not a lot of employees for the revenue they produce.
The problem with the computer industry is that most of the competition is in fact heavily Augustusized - thinking only of income and very bloated/slow to boot.
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I guess that's fairly easy to say about a company that sub-contracts Chinese companies that employ thousands of workers on wages and conditions so poor that the companies need to create physical barriers to prevent their workers from committing suicide.
Well duh.
The sad thing is that Apple is the company that treats employees better than almost any other with extra benefits and so on; one can only imagine what conditions are like for workers making Android devices for example. Truly the machines have won,
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Considering it's not so easy to say this about similar companies sub-contracting the exact same Chinese companies - or even worse ones - what's your fucking point again?
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Given that you already had your finger on it, wouldn't it have just been easier to hit the D key again?
Looks like the retards have got bored with buggering (sorry, bug'ering) up plurals and now they're trying to do the same to past participles.
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The -ize ending is valid in non-American English too, it isn't an Americanism.
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However, there were a handful of exceptions that were strictly spelled with -ise, and because it was thoguht a greater crime to spell them with a z than to spell the remainder with an s, -ise became popular through the rule: "if in doubt, use an s".
There's even an episode of the 80s TV detective seri
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Interesting. I'm 28 and can never remember being taught anything but -ise, and was always told -ize is American.
Mind you I'm Australian. It's possible that -ize was historically more acceptable in Britain than here, or that we shifted from -ize to -ise at an earlier date. This kind of stuff fascinates me...
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Not really Gail Davis had several children with the Doctor whom then left her in his Tardis.
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I wonder how many Mac Apps were sold the first day. [lmgtfy.com]
Evernote doubled their user base in the first week of the Mac App Store's existence (actual googling left as an exercise for the student.) I guess they are snickering all the way to the bank.
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It's been open for 18 days, so probably not quite 10 billion yet. You can hold your derision until it's been open for 2.5 years like the mobile App Store. I'm not sure it will hit 10 billion in that time frame though, since it is less focused on cheap and cheerful free apps (although there are a lot of those), but more on slightly more expensive apps and games.
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Yeah, 10B would be 267 in decimal