Friday July 17, 2009 1.5 billion iPhone app downloads: Bogus or Bonafide
I attended a talk here at Sun, by Ilya L. and Chris D. from GetJar.com talking about their download rate of Java ME apps far outnumbering the actual download rate of the Apple App Store for the iPhone. There seems to be some controversy over whether the possibly cooked up 1.5 billion iPhone app download number contains just unique app downloads or includes the frequent updates that an already installed app requires. Jason D. O'Grady a blogger at ZDNet seems to agree and think the Apple number is bogus. See: 1.5 billion iPhone app downloads bogus? Here's a quote: Apple is cooking the books (ala Enron and WorldCom) when they put out irrelevant and nonsense releases like this. For starters, I’m pretty sure that Apple counts every download in that 1.5 billion number. Updates and re-installs included.Pretty strong words. Some might even say libelous. But as Jason points out, if the 1.5 billion download number is true, then where is the court injunction against his libelous blog post? Where is the demand for a retraction? If the number were true, I would think Apple would sue his mud slinging, yellow journalism tushie mighty quickly. (Of course, I'm just saying that since I didn't make that claim and I want to see a food fight or at least a court case...) ;-) By the way, after talking with the GetJar.com guys, we could probably come up with the number of Java ME app downloads that happened last year. Something north of 20 billion is the guess... Not including updates. :-) |
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