| Android Developers Have Difficulty to Monetize Their Apps |
- An article and reports showed that 60% of the 80,000 Android apps are free.
- As compared to iPad (26%) and iPhone (29%) are Free Apps.
- It makes the business model for Apple Developers more attractive because developers can't sustain their work by just providing free apps.
- 80-20 rule is great model for an Applications portal. It will have enough free apps for users to try before buying.
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| Latest Facts and Figures from Apple Sept 1, 2010 Event in San Francisco |
Apple used its media event in SF to provide official updates on its products and services:-
- 120 Million iOS devices
- 6.5 Billion apps have been downloaded
- 200 Apps downloaded every second
- 250K apps on App Store
- 25K iPad apps
- 275 Million iPods sold
- iPod Touch the most popular iPod.
- iPod Touch is No. 1 portable player. Outsells Nintendo and Sony combined.
- iPod Touch have 50% market share (US and worldwide)
- 1.5 Billion downloaded for iPod Touch (Mainly Game and Entertainment)
- 11.7 Billion songs over iTunes
- 450 Million TV episodes
- 100 Million Movies
- 35 Million Books
- 150 Million accounts with Credit Cards
- No. 1 Online Media Store
- 120 Million songs in Library
- 150 Million iTunes users in 23 countries
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| How to Jailbreak my old iPod Touch 1G? |
- I forgot that it has been a long time since I updated by Jailbroken iPod Touch 1G which is on Firmware 2.1.1
- Cydia no longer is able to update all the latest patches. It seems that I have 34 files/apps need to upgraded.
- Since, Cydia failed to update, I have decided to Restore to 2.2.1 and Jailbreak it.
- Then, I realized Blackra1n did not support 2.2.1.
- Thus, I downloaded 3.1.3 and Jailbreak it using Jailbreakme.com.
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