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3
Jan
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App downloads top 1 billion during the holiday week

During the holiday week (by which we mean the seven days between the secularized celebration of a Christian holy day timed to replace a pagan winter festival and the beginning of a new year in the Gregorian calendar) the iTunes App Store and the Android Market combined to reach a record-breaking 1.2 billion downloads according to analytics firm Flurry. The sudden surge in downloads is no shock considering the impressive number of activations on Christmas day, but a 60 percent jump over the week of December 4th through December 17th is still quite a feat.

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12
Dec
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Apple Mac Store breaks the 100 million download barrier

At just under a year old, Apple’s Mac App Store is celebrating a fairly significant milestone, hitting the 100 million download mark, a fact the company celebrated with a customarily self-congratulatory press release. The desktop store hit the scene in January of this year , just ahead of CES — at present, it’s home to “thousands” of apps, according to Apple.

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4
Oct

Apple: 250 million iOS devices sold, 18 billion apps downloaded

250 Million iOS Devices Sold
Among the glut of numbers coming out of the Apple keynote today, delaying the reveal of your next iPhone, was a particularly impressive one: 250 million. That’s the number of iOS devices sold. That’s 250 million iPhones and iPads in the wild worldwide, running a grand total of 18 billion apps between them, which have netted developers a whopping $3 billion. That ladies and gentlemen, is nothing to sniff at.

Apple: 250 million iOS devices sold, 18 billion apps downloaded originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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4
Oct

Apple: 16 billion iTunes songs downloaded, 300 million iPods sold

Tim Cook’s dishing out plenty of numbers today, and there’s some big ones when it comes to the iPod and iTunes. He confirmed that there’s now been a whopping 16 billion songs downloaded from iTunes, and 300 million iPods sold. To put that in a bit of perspective, he also noted that it took Sony 30 years to sell a mere 220,000 Walkman cassette players.

Apple: 16 billion iTunes songs downloaded, 300 million iPods sold originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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4
Oct

Apple: Six million copies of OS X Lion downloaded since launch

Before we get to the real meat of things, Tim Cook’s just trotted out some Lion numbers — six million copies downloaded since launch, to be exact. According to the big Apple’s new CEO, that’s a growth of 80 percent over Snow Leopard. Of course, those numbers would mean nothing without a little comparison. Cook says it took Windows 7 20 weeks to meet 10 percent of Windows’ install base, compared to the two weeks it took Lion to reach the same portion of OS X users.

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Apple: Six million copies of OS X Lion downloaded since launch originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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17
Aug

Symbian Belle download leaked to N8 community, quickly pulled from site (update: Anna available on NaviFirm)

For a very short period of time there was pure bliss for Nokia N8 users with a knack for tinkering around; Symbian Belle, a coveted update to the still-unreleased Anna, was spotted in a user forum, leaked and available for download. Alas, it was not meant to be, as enough users experienced issues installing the new firmware that the files had to be pulled until it can be resolved. According to DailyMobile, the folks behind the update will try again tomorrow, so anyone interested may want to keep a close eye on it just in case it goes live again. As any other unofficial firmware install, it’s not for the faint of heart; you’ll want to be confident in what you’re doing before you get started. Head below for another eight-minute video.

Update: It looks like Symbian Anna is now available for N8 users, with early variants of the firmware showing up on NaviFirm. No word yet on when V22 will be available via Ovi Suite or as an OTA update, but if you’ve already upgraded, let us know how you’re finding it in the comments.

[Thanks, Daniel]

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Symbian Belle download leaked to N8 community, quickly pulled from site (update: Anna available on NaviFirm) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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11
Aug

GameFly to launch ‘Unlimited PC Play’ download service, offer less incentive to leave the house

GameFly hasn’t wasted any time jumping into the digital download waters after acquiring IGN’s Direct2Drive platform a little over two months ago. Set to launch September 8th in beta form, its new “Unlimited PC Play” service will offer subscribers access to 100-plus downloadable PC and Mac titles, with hundreds more expected in time for the official end of year launch. Fans of the video game rental outfit’s snail mail subscription service don’t have to worry about a shift to digital only, as the company has no plans to abandon its “unique combination of console and digital PC game offerings.” Interested in getting an early peek at the new platform? If you live in the Los Angeles area, you can look forward to a planned beta launch party next month, where access codes for the new, invite-only service will be distributed. The rest of you PC gaming warriors will just have to settle for a sign-up page at the source.

GameFly to launch ‘Unlimited PC Play’ download service, offer less incentive to leave the house originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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11
Aug

GameFly to launch ‘Unlimited PC Play’ download service, offer less incentive to leave the house

GameFly hasn’t wasted any time jumping into the digital download waters after acquiring IGN’s Direct2Drive platform a little over two months ago. Set to launch September 8th in beta form, its new “Unlimited PC Play” service will offer subscribers access to 100-plus downloadable PC and Mac titles, with hundreds more expected in time for the official end of year launch. Fans of the video game rental outfit’s snail mail subscription service don’t have to worry about a shift to digital only, as the company has no plans to abandon its “unique combination of console and digital PC game offerings.” Interested in getting an early peek at the new platform? If you live in the Los Angeles area, you can look forward to a planned beta launch party next month, where access codes for the new, invite-only service will be distributed. The rest of you PC gaming warriors will just have to settle for a sign-up page at the source.

GameFly to launch ‘Unlimited PC Play’ download service, offer less incentive to leave the house originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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6
Jun

Waiting for a taste of the iCloud? Check your iPhone

The waiting, a great man once said, is the hardest part. And while seeing all of today’s WWDC promises come to fruition will certainly take patience, iPhone owners can take some solace in the fact that the updates have already begun. At least a portion of the new functionality is now available by opening up the “Purchased” tab in iOS 4′s App Store, revealing a history of apps that have been downloaded with your account, including those not currently on your device. Those not presently installed will feature a cloud icon, making it possible to re-download them onto the handset. It’s not quite iOS 5, sure, but it’s a start.

[Thanks everyone who sent this in]

Waiting for a taste of the iCloud? Check your iPhone originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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26
May

Amazon launches Mac Download Store with more than 250 titles

Yes, it’s another store within a store at Amazon, this time a Mac Download Store. While software downloads certainly aren’t anything new for the online retailer, the Mac store does actually boast a wider variety of titles than Amazon’s Windows download section, including games like Dragon Age: Origins and Civilization V, and applications like Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop Elements. All told, there’s more than 250 titles currently available — not exactly a rival to Apple’s own Mac App Store, but a more than respectable start. Of course, no store launch is complete without a sale, and Amazon has kicked things off with two: a free download of Airport Mania, and $5 off your first paid download. Hit up the source link below to check it out.

Amazon launches Mac Download Store with more than 250 titles originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 May 2011 14:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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