News Archive for 08/06/11

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Piper on App Store

06/11, 4:30pm

Piper: App Store could become $1 billion market

The App Store could prove potentially lucrative to the software industry, says the Piper Jaffray research group in part of its ongoing WWDC analysis. The firm suggests that the App Store could reach a userbase of some 78 million people by the end of 2009, a figure reached by combining iPhone and iPod touch visitors, and assuming an active Store userbase of 91 percent. Piper notes that while this may be optimistic, Apple claims that 98 percent of iPhone owners already browse the web, while 94 percent access e-mail.

iPhone 2.0 before 3G?

06/11, 11:45am

iPhone 2.0 on June 27, no 3G music downloads?

Apple's iPhone 2.0 firmware, primarily built to support native applications and the App Store, should be available in advance of the 3G hardware many are expected to use it with, Engadget writes. The information comes by way of the Australian Apple website, in which the iPod touch section specifically states that the App Store will open on June 27th. Apple has previously said that the App Store will not function without the v2.0 firmware.

PA Semi & iPod, iPhone

06/11, 10:45am

Jobs: PA Semi buy was for iPhone, iPod chips

The purpose of acquiring PA Semi was the creation of chips for iPhones and iPods, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has admitted. "PA Semi is going to do system-on-chips for iPhones and iPods," Jobs tells the New York Times. Although Apple has dismissed rumors that it is unhappy with Intel, or that it is planning to resurrect some PowerPC technology, it has been unclear what PA Semi was needed for other than designing chips for portable electronics.