Apple recently surpassed the 10 Billion app download mark, but it took them 2.5 years or so to get there. According to Gartner, that number will be dwarfed with about 17.7 billion apps to be downloaded in this year alone.
Lifehacker’s put together a list of ten+two Android apps that are both free and do something marginally useful. Like a clock when you sleep. [Lifehacker]
If you rejoiced at Google’s re-rollout of the one-phone-number-for-life Grand Central service as Google Voice, you’ll be pretty happy about GV—an app that can place outdoing calls using your universal number.
When Google yanked tethering apps from the Android Market, anger broiled in customers and developers alike. Google’s response is simple, but has far-reaching implications: tethering apps are back, just not for T-Mobile USA customers.
Microsoft has dribbled out a few specifics about their upcoming Windows Mobile Marketplace: an industry standard 70% dev commission, a familiar $US99 joining fee, and a somewhat pointed pledge of “transparency”.
If you wanted the unlocked $400 Android G1 phone but were reluctant because of its problems, the new 1.1 update fixes most, but still leaves the issue of running paid applications partially unsolved.
