The success of the App Store, from Apple’s point of view

By Paul Smith

You love Apple. You love iPhones. You love iPhone apps. You love them so much you bought the I’m Rich application for $999 and still have realised what a prize twat that makes you. You have hundreds of the little bastards in your phones, to the point you’ve no more screens to display them on. Yet you keep buying iPhone applications, deleting the old ones as you go.

But you’re not the only one. There are thousands of you. Millions of you. So how does all that stupidity look from Apple’s point of view? When 50 million iPhone users are pissing money up the wall on virtual fart machines and animated Chuck Norris kung-fu video games, what do they see?

Unveiled at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference in San Francisco on Monday, the television that Steve Jobs has fitted to his bedroom ceiling. The 20 cinema displays display the 20,000 best selling apps – when one is purchased, it oscillates in a highly pleasurable manner. It’s the sight of a metric fuckton of money raining into Apple’s bank account every second:

appwall 090609 4 The success of the App Store, from Apples point of view

For videos of this pleasure-pumping technology at work, check out Apple Insider.

[Apple Insider]

Tags: app store, apple, iphone, ipod touch, steve jobs, wwdc
Posted in Gadgets, Stuff, tech June 10th, 2009 | 5 Comments

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5 Responses to “The success of the App Store, from Apple’s point of view”

Posted by MinstrelMan | June 10th, 2009 at 3:05 pm

upto 159 apps available on 11 home screens on the new 3gs Iphone….. welcome to twat-ville.

VOTE LUKE!
Posted by Rob | June 10th, 2009 at 3:21 pm

iMug – the new punter paradigm
Posted by dave | June 10th, 2009 at 6:35 pm

I feel sorry for the people who can’t afford one of these, probably can’t get any reception in their caves anyway.
Posted by Nobby | June 11th, 2009 at 10:04 am

Can you get a Steve Jobs is taking a shit app?
Posted by billythefish | June 11th, 2009 at 5:11 pm

Nobber,…I mean Nobby SJ wasn’t even at the conference, if you want to be a bill gates /michael dell suckboy go ahead but try and get your facts right.