Calm down. I'm pretty sure you're the same people who fact-check the hell outta anything that Apple didn't create. This was a perfectly valid item to point out: 3000 less than the heralded 50000 would make it about 6% overstated. 1 or 2% would be understandable for rounding's sake but what Apple's mouthpiece basically did is lie to the public – one cannot just assume they are "counting" the magical realm of "international" app stores, and if they did you know it was for the express purpose of making the 50k claim earlier than before.

I guess it comes back to fact-checking in the end, if you can't check Apple's claims – then why would anyone believe them or take offense that someone is critical? I guess the same people who think that a credit card means they have extra cash to spend.

Total Active Apps: 50,176

Total Inactive Apps: 3,738

Total Apps Seen: 53,914

Unique App Publishers: 13,724

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ex ped: Thanks for the update!

ex ped: I believe most microcephalics would find that offensive, Patrick.

Just like everything else about Apple their stuff is toys for children to play with.

Anyway, I just read another story that went like this "Apple did not announce a single thing that another carrier or handset maker hasn't done before". Are these "tech journalists" for real? I have not seen apps like the one Airstrip Technologies showed anywhere else. I think that is cool and innovative no meter what these monkey "tech journalists" say.

Peace!

You really need to understand the difference between a US-centric marketplace and a global marketplace. Apple was only quoting international features in the keynote, so it should not have been a surprise that they quoted international app store numbers. If you go directly to 148apps, they make it very clear that they are only calculating the US store. Get your facts together next time.

Your assessment that some of the apps are international versions is a no brainer. How'd you come up with that one? As are apps that only run in the UK (like BBC World News), or all of the Japanese only Manga apps. There are literally thousands of these apps. Not just the duplicate apps you discussed.

I know for a fact that Apple was above 50k on Monday. You're just pissed off that you didn't break the obvious story. And yes, it was obvious. Anybody can count.

In other words, a major corporation does business on such huge scales, that if Microsoft announced 10 million Vista sales, and it is 9,900,000, the gist of the story remains the same.

Now, this is a blog, where the story is often in the non-story, but it is generally a better written blog so there is no reason for this to really be a subject up for discussion. A student of language would note that the claim made, in the venue it was made, was that Apple sold a whole bunch of apps and beats the stuffing out of the next stores down the list.

I would note that when Microsoft uses installed user base to predict game sales on Windows and Xbox compared to its gaming platform competitors, despite a significant portion of that installed user base being corporate machines that will never have a game purchased for them, few journalists even note the discrepancy in what really is a glaring error (at least Sony would think so). Likewise, when Intel was stuck on its megahertz myth marketing, few questioned the bigger the number the faster the processor, despite the most powerful processors measured in terms of data movement mostly having slower clock speeds. These were places precision of this sort was called for, but was not applied by most journalists.

ex ped: Yes. That's the difference.