Amazon has begun selling TV episodes for 99 cents a piece, just hours after Apple announced that they would begin offering 99 cent rentals on recently aired shows.
Disney and Fox shows, such as “Glee,” “Lost” and “Bones” are now available via Amazon Video On Demand for 99 cents.
When you purchase the episodes, they are yours to keep. You can download them and they never expire. You can also stream them indefinitely.
Shows from other broadcasters, such as AMC, still cost $1.99, however.
The ability to download is only available on Windows PCs and TiVO HD boxes, but you can stream the shows on Macs, HDTVs, Roku boxes and more.
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Yesterday, Apple announced that in one year the company had 65,000 applications available via the App Store, with a total download count of 1.5 billion.
Critics today have come out swinging however, asking whether the number is inflated because some of the apps are built on templates. Known as “bulk apps,” the collection of apps are offered “at the same price point and have the same look and feel, but swap out the content,” says the Washington Post.
Skyhook Wireless, a company which provides location-based info to app developers, said that there are thousands of “Bulk Apps” including one developer who sells 850 travel applications all based on the same template but changing the content for different locations.
Om Malik of GigaOm is calling the trick Apple’s “Dirty Little Secret” and believes that all the template-based apps should only count as one.
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Orange France,, the service provider for the Apple iPhone in France has released the sales figures for the device in the country marking the first time an individual country’s iPhones sold stats have been released by anyone but Apple.
According to Pocketlint, an “Orange France spokesperson has said they have sold 90,000 iPhones in total since the device went on sale in late November last year.”
Of the 90,000 units sold, 86 percent were sold with an iPhone-specific price plans and the remaining 14 percent were not which is odd because it is a legal requirement in France.
Last month, the UK iPhone operator O2 claimed the device was the “company’s fastest selling device it has ever had in the UK,” but did not go into any sales figure.
At the beginning of the year Apple announced that they had sold 4 million units worldwide.
