iPhone iPod Plus

Apple shows the public the news of the next version of firmware for its multitouch devices: iPhone and iPod touch. If users can finally have a copy / paste and MMS, developers can now create applications for the most disparate areas of employment, thanks to an expanded support for external accessories by opening the Bluetooth
module and dock connector.

Introduction

March 17, 2009, 10:00 am Pacific Daylight Time: turn on the spotlight on iPhone OS 3.0. Apple has invited the U.S. press to its Cupertino campus to illustrate the novelty of the next version of the operating system intended to govern their own multitouch phone. This is an event of no small importance, since it will lay the guidelines for the first major evolution of the whole ecosystem around the iPhone and business linked to it.

As usual bars initial presentation covers a couple of numbers that, in this case, describing the business of Apple on the iPhone. To introduce the event is obviously not Steve Jobs, in medical leave until June, but Greg is Jowsiak, vice president of Product Marketing for iPod and iPhone from Apple.

iPhone has a presence in eighty countries in the world, Joswiak said that at the time of the launch of the first version of Apple iPhone set itself the goal of selling 10 million units during the first full year. The Mela was able to exceed the target, reaching up to 13.7 million units sold during 2008. Extending the period to June 2007, debut of the first EDGE iPhone, a mobile phone from Apple has sold over 17 million pieces, and if the statement is also iPod touch, equipped with the same operating system, you will reach 30 million devices sold.

So much for the user side. On the developer, the results are less flattering: Apple claims to have recorded more than 800 thousand downloads for the development tools for the operating system that equips iPhone and iPod touch. More than 50 thousand companies and independent developers that have joined the developer program set up by Apple and, according to Apple itself, about 60% of them had never led the development of software for any platform before Apple iPhone / iPod touch.

The App Store the showcase through which developers can offer the public creates their own applications for multitouch devices from Apple. There are 25 thousand applications now at App Store catalog. Joswiak said that 96% of all applications submitted and pass through the meshes of control Apple has been approved for publication. App Store to date has a total number of downloads of 800 million, a matter of moments to reach the billionth downloaded application.