Today Apple announced that more than two billion applications from its iTunes App store have been downloaded to date.

As of December 28th 2009, Apple has reported over 2 billion iPhone and iTouch applications being downloaded from their ITunes Store.  With apps in every category from music, to twitter apps to organizational apps. to health and fitness, there’s something for everyone.

There are now more than 85,000 apps available and over 125,000 developers of these apps in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program.

“The rate of App Store downloads continues to accelerate with users downloading a staggering two billion apps in just over a year, including more than half a billion apps this quarter alone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The App Store has reinvented what you can do with a mobile handheld device and our users are clearly loving it.”

iPhone and iTouch users in 77 countries can choose from a vast range of applications with more being developed each day.  Its no wonder its so easy for that number to be reached. Its so easy to sync your player or phone to iTunes and download the app after it is purchased.

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Adobe and Apple have locked horns recently and developers the world over have being caught in the middle. But we aren’t developers we are consumers so why should we care about what Apple not allowing flash on their devices.

Well to start with Flash has being around since 1996 (formerly Macromedia Flash before being acquired by Adobe). So my iPhone I just paid $1000 for in 2010 can’t support content created in 1996 great! of course flash has been an integral part of the web growing up.

One of Apple’s claims is it uses too much battery life, guess what let me decide how I want to spend my iPhone battery life! not you not anyone. This seems a bit like when Apple decided it would be better for them (is that meant to be me PR person please?) that I can’t use Google Voice. In fact they don’t even want me to watch porn on their devices?

A better question

Do Apple care about what you want? the only way I can judge that is by the choices they have taken away from me in the past. They seem to care about their idea of what people want not choice.

An even better question

Do Apple care about developers? they make all the apps, no developers equals a very expensive smart phone in your pocket that can’t do anything especially great. The best developers are very smart people and if they don’t like working with Apple looking over their shoulder then don’t expect them to be making apps for much longer. iPhones are killing the smart phone market for now and that is a big attraction for developers but I don’t think its attitude will continue to retain the best developers.

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You will also be able to tune into FM radio and count your steps with included pedometer functionality.

It will be shipping in 8GB and 16GB flavors, which seem a tad small to us but they did have to fit everything in a very small package.

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