It has previously been rumored that the Android Market would have passed 90,000 apps, but that appears to have been invalid. The AndroidDev twitter account has confirmed that the Android Market actually has hit the 100,000 apps milestone.
Here is what AndroidDev wrote on their official twitter account:
One hundred thousand apps in Android Market.
Graz to Android, and the Android Market’s success!
According to Mobclix, the Apple App Store passed the 300,000 app mark last night. This number has yet to be confirmed by Apple, but at least gives you a heads-up on that it could be announced by Apple soon enough.
Roughly 50,000 “apps” are books, and another 50,000 are games. Nearly 207,000 apps are paid, and nearly 95,000 are free.
Congrats on those numbers Apple!
Motorola today announced the Milestone 2. This is an European version of the Motorola Droid 2.
The Motorola Milestone 2 will run Android 2.2 Froyo and Motorola’s own UI called MOTOBLUR. The phone has an 3.7″ WVGA touch screen, QWERTY keyboard, WiFi, GPS, 720p HD video capture and playback, 3.5mm audio jack, 5MP camera with dual LED flash, 1GHz processor, 8GB internal memory and a microSD card slot with an 8GB card pre-installed.
The Milestone 2 will be available in Q4, but no official word on how much this thing will cost.
Hit View Post for a PR video of the Milestone 2.
Motorola just announced update schedules for their phones running Android.
Europe:
Hit View Post to see update schedules for the US, Canada, Asia-Pasific, Latin America and Mexico.
Apple today announced its financial results for the second calendar quarter, and third fiscal quarter of 2010. Apple’s revenue is $15.7 billion, with a net profit of $3.25 billion. A year ago the revenue was $9.73 billion, and net profit $1.83 billion.
Apple shipped 3.47 million Macs, 8.4 million iPhones and 9.41 million iPods. Apple also sold 3.27 million iPads after it’s launch in April 2010.
“It was a phenomenal quarter that exceeded our expectations all around, including the most successful product launch in Apple’s history with iPhone 4,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPad is off to a terrific start, more people are buying Macs than ever before, and we have amazing new products still to come this year.”
“We’re really pleased to have generated over $4 billion of cash during the quarter,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the fourth fiscal quarter of 2010, we expect revenue of about $18 billion and we expect diluted earnings per share of about $3.44”
Read full Press Release here.
The company behind one of the biggest success stories of the Apple App Store, Tap Tap Revenge by Tapulous, was today acquired by Disney.
Tapulous has been acquired by Disney. The iPhone gaming startup with several hits on its hands was founded by Bart Decrem, who will join Disney as a VP. COO Andrew Lacy is also joining Disney as a VP. Disney is very interested in social and mobile gaming, having recently invested in Playdom’s $33 million round.
Congrats to Tapulous, I’d say they made some big money with this transfer to Disney!
Motorola released an update to Android 2.1 for you lucky Milestone users in the UK.
Here is what Motorola wrote on Facebook:
Motorola Europe UK Milestone owners – At last, the 2.1 upgrade rolls out today. Thank you for your patience and we hope you enjoy enhancements such Speech to Text, live wallpapers, up to 9 home screens, and added security for exchange server users. The update is available now via PC download from http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/support/update/ and will be followed by an over-the-air version in coming days.
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