148Apps (http;//www.148apps.biz/), which offers iPhone development news and information, says the Apple App Store has over 250,000 apps from 50,304 publishers as of Friday, just slightly over two years after it opened.
AppShopper.com, which keeps a similar list, has the total at 253,777 apps, including 24,334 for the iPad, notes “Fortune” (http://macosg.me/2/ss).
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Even with a flood of rival products in the works, Apple’s iPad is unlikely to face a viable competitor until 2011, allowing the company to maintain a dominant share in the tablet market at least through 2012, according to market research firm iSuppli Corp. (http://www.isuppli.com).
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By Greg Mills
As I mentioned in this column in the past, the biggest problem Android will face in its attempt to be the “iPhone killer” that actually cuts into Apple’s pie is being open source. In the debate over closed vs open software platforms, the issue that comes to the top, in terms of business success, is security for developers.
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According to new statistics released by Bango (http://news.bango.com), a mobile analytics and payment specialist, the volume of mobile web browsing from Android phones in the U.S. grew by 400% between quarter one and quarter two of 2010. In comparison the volume of growth from Apple devices was just 13% over the same period, representing an actual percentage market share decline of 16%.
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Softpress Systems has released Freeway 5.5 , a new version of its web design products, Freeway Express and Pro. Versions of both Freeway Express and Freeway Pro are available from the Softpress web site (http://www.softpress.com)
According to Softpress Managing Director Richard Logan, alongside Freeway’s extensive existing feature set, Freeway 5.5 has a range of new functionality including:
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