Mark

Motorola Droid

Motorola Droid

Dude, a very large majority of the Apps on the iPhone are "shovelware." Sure there are TONS of great apps, but what percentage of the 100,000 apps are truly useful?

The approval process may help in some regards, but it certainly doesn't prevent copious amounts of "shovelware" from getting into the app store.

@Microdot

They only shipped 200,000. So, at best they could have only sold about 100,000 more (assuming this sales estimate is accurate). Plus, this was a US-only launch. And there was almost no main-stream fanfare before launch (the ads that actually show the device haven't even started hitting the airwaves yet). Sure WE knew about it, but I can assure you few non-techies knew about this device before the weekend. I'm sensing more are becoming aware as I'm hearing plenty of my (non-techie) friends and people at work talking about it.

I don't know what Verizon's marketing plans were, or if they intended to completely sell everything out, but from how they're launching these ads, it seems like this was more of a softer launch. Perhaps they're hopping to generate buzz first and make up sales later. Viral marketing first, and then more main-stream later?

All that being said, I don't know how you can call 100,000 in 1 weekend a failure. Sure it wasn't iPhone 3GS worldwide sales from this summer, but it certainly was very good. I'm interested to see how the Q4 numbers play out.

Just use Google Voice's voicemail system. It's free and you get an e-mail of your voice messages.

No, he's referring to Apple's silly excuse for removing a camera because "it's a gaming device" (yes, that makes no sense).

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/steve-jobs-says-ipod-touch-didnt-get-a-camera-because-its-a-g/

The story here isn't that Flash doesn't run on the iPhone (something we've known always), but rather Adobe's response calling Apple out as the reason you can't have Flash on your iPhone. That's what interesting about this story.

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