Apple has noted that they have reached the 300 million download milestone for the App Store, almost five months after the store went live. Despite being a large number, a deeper look shows that growth has flattened.
Silicon Valley Insider estimates that it took 61 days to hit the first 100 million apps downloaded, and then 43 days each for the next hundreds.
Although Apple must be disappointed with the flat numbers, compared to the floundering mobile app industry the numbers are certainly impressive.
SVI also estimates that there are about 25 million iPhones and iPod Touches out on the market which means that each user could possibly be downloading up to 15 apps per device, an average far higher than that of any other mobile device.
Result for: Downloads
Every year, Torrentfreak makes a list of the most pirated PC games of the year and this year is no different.
Topping the list is Spore, the blockbuster game that made headlines for its unique gameplay and for the backlash it received due to EA’s choice to include brutal SecuROM DRM.
In second place was Sims 2, another game from Spore creator Will Wright. In third was Assassin’s Creed, which is probably on the list because a pirated version was leaked to torrent and P2P sites weeks before the retail date.
Some of the other titles on the list are more surprising given their release date but they remain popular.
The full list is as follows:
Number on list; Name; Amount of downloads; Date of release
1 Spore
(1,700,000) (Sept. 2008)
2 The Sims 2
(1,150,000) (Sept. 2004)
3 Assassins Creed
(1,070,000) (Nov. 2007)
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Result for: Downloads
Opera Software has released Alpha 1 version of their new Opera 10 browser. The company claims that the version 10 browser with the new Presto 2.2 rendering engine is 30 percent faster that its predecessor. If you don’t mind the bugs that you might - and probably will - encounter you can download it from the AfterDawn.com Downloads section right away.
According to Opera the new Presto 2.2 is not only faster than the 2.1 version - which was released last summer - but renders pages more accurately as well. The new Presto is said to get full 100 points in the Acid3 test, which is the industry standard for testing html, javascript and css rendering. In comparison Firefox 3 gets 71 and Google Chrome 79 points out of 100.
