Contentinople - Erin Barker - News Bits: More Than Just One a Day

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Monday, August 11. 2008 at 11:30 AM EDT Post a comment

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If it wasn't enough for Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) to sell 1 million 3G iPhones in the first three days that the product went on sale, The Wall Street Journal now reports that iPhone users have downloaded more than 60 million programs from the company's App Store in its first month of business.

Most iPhone software is free, but sales still totaled $30 million for the apps that month. CEO Steve Jobs says that if sales continue at this pace, Apple stands to make $360 million a year from the App Store.

However, Om Malik of GigaOm questions whether these downloads translate into sustained usage of the iPhone apps.

In other news:

Rumor has it that the allusion to a "product transition" during Apple's most recent earnings conference call was to… video, according to an AlleyInsider source. Specifically, this "was referring to Quicktime encoding/decoding chips built into their products."

Hardcore fans, convention-goers, and gold-bikini fantasizers already know about the Star Wars live-action TV series to come out some time in 2009, while networks wait nonchalantly until George Lucas's completed show is ready for bidding. The series will focus on lesser characters from the films, probably with cameos by Luke, et al. According to Wired Epicenter, the series will cost around $2 million per one-hour episode, a far cry from the film version, which runs $50 million an hour.

Tags: Apple, Business, iPhone, TV, Video

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