Apple iPhone users have downloaded more than 500 million applications forcing companies to continue to come up with engaging content, with now some 25,000 applications available.
The handset has sold over 17 million handsets worldwide since its introduction in June 2007.
It is the applications that are creating word-of-mouth excitement. If you have an iPhone, you’ve downloaded them. If you don’t, you have friends that have shown you Yelp, Tipulator, Shazam or Weightbot.
If users were to buy every application in the App Store, it would cost $71,442.69 (£37,000). However, slightly more than 6,000 applications are free. The biggest categories of apps are games, followed by entertainment, books and “utilities.”
The number of people using their mobile device to access news and information on the Internet more than doubled from January 2008 to January 2009.
Among the audience of 63.2 million people who accessed news and information on their mobile devices in January 2009, 22.4 million (35 percent) did so daily; more than double the size of the audience last year.
Now there are more models of touchscreen handsets than you can hold in both hands. BlackBerry, Google and scores of other manufacturers have joined the competition.
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that iPhone revenues had increased more than five times—reaching $1.2 billion in the quarter ended December 27, 2008, up from $241 million the year before.
Meanwhile, YouTube has received more than 100 million unique visits in January, making it again the most widely viewed video service, according to comScore.
YouTube owes much of its growth to the users who generate the majority of content on the site. eMarketer estimates that 9.1 per cent of Internet users, or 18.1 million people, will create user-generated videos in 2009.
Despite this enthusiasm, YouTube has yet to fully realize its revenue potential.
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