“Apple issued a press release [yesterday] morning, announcing that App Store downloads have now topped the 3 billion mark,” Rick Aristotle Munarriz writes for The Motley Fool.
“It’s certainly an impressive feat, given that Apple launched the applications marketplace only two summers ago,” Munarriz writes. “It took just six months to double up on the 1.5 billion downloads that the company chalked up during the App Store’s rookie year.”
“The timing of the press release is certainly no accident,” Munarriz writes. “This was supposed to be Google’s day. The world’s leading search engine has been prepping for [yesterday’s] Nexus One unveiling — but in steps Apple to hog some of the attention.”
Munarriz writes, “Apple has a funny — or tactically brilliant — way of crashing the party… There is no way that the timing of Apple’s press release is a coincidence. Jobs has plenty of practice in pulling the rug from under his competitors — and he just did it again.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Don’t mess with the master; especially by trotting out a bunch of unprepared fumbling stiffs to unveil your non-multi-touch entry in a long line of me-too iPhone clones:
Direct link to video here.
Google, your honeymoon is over. If you want so badly to be the next Microsoft, expect to be treated like them.
Perhaps Google has a bit too much market share for their own good?
By default, iPhone’s Safari Web browser searches using Google. You can have Safari search using Yahoo, instead. From your iPhone’s Home screen choose Settings > Safari > Search Engine, then switch from Google to Yahoo. In addition, there are many Web Search apps available for iPhone and iPod touch. See them all via Apple’s iTunes App Store here.
Mac Safari users can easily install a plug-in such as the free Glims, to add multiple search engine choices to Safari.
LOL…… I think they may need to practice the presentation a few times or pick someone that can talk.
I agree with the other posters. Why attack Google just because they released a phone? I can understand the Microsoft or even Nokia attacks but the Google attacks seem unwarranted. If anything, I welcome Google to the phone party as it shifts Microsoft’s power in this area to be even less than what it is. It’s not like any of Google management has come out like CEOs of other companies such as Microsoft and Creative to publicly bash Apple. As much as I love Apple, would we really want to them to own every market without any competition? Let’s really put this in prospective people.
I notice on my iPhone that you have a Google Nexus ad on this site. That’s cool, but where’s the iPhone ad on Google’s site? Seems biased in Google’s favor to me.
Also, to be fair, shouldn’t Apple make another search engine the default in Safari?
Google is spiraling down the same path as Microsoft. Trying to be all things to all people isn’t a great business model.
Wow who cares how many downloads. I have downloaded and deleted countless Apps because they are crap or useless. Apple made the annoucement because they are worried.
Exemplar must be different from example. Could it be the word bumbling buttheads use when simple straightforward is available?
@reality check
“Prospective” – was that a Freudian slip?
Antonym “Antispective”?
I’m just trying to put things in a different perspective.
I concur that Google doesn’t deserve the animosity shown here. . . . We all owe a great debt to Google and what they’ve done with making the world’s knowledge available, instantly, at our fingertips. . . . Three billion. Is that the number of daily searches handled by Google?
I’ve met the Google Bear, and I can pretty well tell you that the lack of social graces and style by this group is because they are GEEKS. They, very much like Apple, just want to make the the world a better place. They want to use their talents and creativity and education and labors in that pursuit.
I consider MDN a friend, but perhaps my friend should get a cup of coffee and go sit in a quiet corner, and consider its attitude towards Google. We all like a rapier wit, but we must be careful the blade does not draw blood from another friend.
After reading about how Google profits on building an ongoing database of the searches we do out of our family iMac (logging the IP Address) by selling IP-specific ads/space for our particular set of interests,
AND
hearing about how Trojan-Schmidt appears to have a non-coincidentally parallel strategy w/ Apple,
We switched to Ixquick — w/ Glims help on Safari, and w/ the direct download on Firefox. Ixquick is big in Europe, but I’ll wager it’ll become huge over the next year, especially for Mac-users.
I’ve been using it about a month now, and the quality of results are excellent w/ a few exceptions (map searches and pic searches).
Anyways, as always, just fwiw…
@AppleJack
It’s tough choosing sides. But I prefer Apple technology and so I choose Apple innovation over copycats.
As for choosing another default search engine. What’s wrong with competition? What’s good for Apple surely must be good for Google, no?
Ignore the tone. Just let freedom of choice for search engines exist. I’d like to see Apple provide it in Safari without the need to install a plugin.
I for one don’t have a problem with Google trying to compete in the smartphone business. (Key word there is “trying”.) It doesn’t change the fact that they have the best search engine by far, and it’ll be a cold day in hell before I start using Yahoo or MS just to spite Google.
MDN Editors sure sound like a bunch of whiney 12 year olds in their reactions.
I guess 2010 is just more of the same from 2009. A year wiser? Hardly. Just a year whinier.
Never mind whether Google deserves to market what is essentially a (probably lesser) copy of all the hard work that Apple did in trailblazing a whole new product category.
What I really want to know is which Google marketing genius decided that their home screen graphic should resemble a minimised Windows logo?
Do you really want consumers to think “Hmmm, a Microsoft knock-off …” when they see your new product?
@Jose
It’s not tough choosing sides. In fact, it’s very natural.
What is tough, is to refrain from bashing others for their choices, which is the mature approach.
@NHL
Take off your Windows goggles.
Cindy you appear to be the only one who has attacked Apple in this thread.
You’re angry because out of thousands of apps, you continue to download crap.
Do you have the same problem attracting all the wrong men?
Perhaps you should try buying a few to regain some sense of satisfaction instead of getting screwed all the time.
Chrome vs Safari
who cares? firefox cannot be beat. sites like mdn are simply useless without adblock and no script .
Gmail vs MobileMe
the gmail interface is second to none, and doesn’t require me to waste time syncing clients over imap.
HEY – what kind of pencils do they use at Google?? The video says the phone is 11.5 mm thick, or about the width of a number 2 pencil. My iPhone is about 11 mm thick, but my pencil is only about 6 mm!
According to wikipedia, when I GOOGLED it:
A standard, hexagonal, “#2 pencil” is cut to a hexagonal height of 1/4-inch (6 mm), but the outer diameter is slightly larger (about 9/32-inch (7 mm)).[51]
Hmmmm… can we trust these guys??
Thanks Jose,
I agree that competition is good, and I’ll bet you that every person working for Google would agree.
I mentioned yesterday that I thought we wanted Android to replace MS Mobile, Symbian and maybe someday, Windows. It is potentially better, and its free. It is especially free of Microsoft.
I think MS is in a world of trouble with the two-pronged attack on its power, from Apple and Google.
Competition from Google is a good thing because it will only make Apple look better. Let’s face it, Google, although having way better ideas than Microsoft is similar in the fact that they simply have no taste in designing software and online services. The Google/Apple relationship was going so well and Google decides to stab Apple in the back to try and get rich quick. Did this not happen with Bill Gates back in 1984 as well? The difference this time is that Apple has it’s iPhone selling well all over the world for the last few years, 3 billion apps downloaded from the app store and a war chest of over $25 billion in the bank. Do you really think Apple is going to stop innovating at this point?
The “iSlate” is weeks away from announcement and the 4th generation iPhone will be out in a few months. When that happens, the competition is going to look like a 20 year old Japanese car. And I’m not talking a mint Acura Integra GS-R, more like an old Corolla that needs it’s timing belt replaced.
How come MDN has posted the story that Chrome has overtaken Safari in marketshare?
I’m sorry. . . . Did I forget Mozilla?
“Interesting” video. The last time I saw Screech, it was in a porn flick on the interwebz.
Oops I meant to say how come this site HASN’T posted the story that Chrome has overtaken Safari in marketshare?
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0
When you hammer Microsoft because it is unimaginative and steals ideas and more, I’m with you. Google is a worthy competitor and has come up with plenty of ideas on their own. The mapping on the iPhone is not an Apple invention. MDN is sounding like a tea-party Republican when it denounces any alternative ways of doing things. In doing so, it is self-demeaning. Also, if you are going to diss someone, use intelligence, great language and humor. Sarcasm and dissing don’t work.