Steve Jobs could sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo. Apple fanboyism is at an all time high these days but you don’t have to be a fanboy to appreciate the amazing sales numbers from the iPhone and iPod. The iPhone 3G has outsold its original counterpart in a single quarter and Apple has already beaten its self-imposed goal of 10 million units with the Holidays still ahead. The iPod has also had it’s highest sales numbers in a non holiday quarter. Why am I dropping all these sales figures you ask? Well, it’s not just about the iPhone and iPod anymore, for me it’s also about Apple’s iTunes App Store.
The App Store has been a huge success in terms of creating revenue for third party developers that never would have had a chance in a regular market. Simple applications that cost as little as $0.99 are making it easy on developers to generate extra revenue to make bigger and better applications. As we speak, the App store has had over 200 million downloads of various applications and over 5,500 different applications to choose from. That number should exceed 10,000 in less than two months. Many questions still remain to be answered as to how many of these applications are free and how many are games.
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I came across this interesting story. It turns out a British man in the late 70’s came up with the idea for the iPod and has the drawings and the patent applications to prove it. He could not afford to pursue the idea and it sort of fell out of his ways. Apple has acknowledged that he had some hand in the invention, but only has paid him a small consultancy fee. This guy wants a shit ton of money, but it looks like he is SOL. Should Apple pay this guy or just laugh all the way to the bank as they sell 100 iPods every minute?
In case you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, we setup a custom Webclips icon for the devices. With the firmware updates released yesterday at MacWorld, you can now add Webclips, or shortcuts to web sites, on your homepage.
I went ahead and created a cool little icon to display on the devices instead of showing the page contents. So go fire up your iPhones and iPod Touches and add us as a Webclip. You know you want to 
We all saw this coming. We hoped it would not, but its here. Total Windows and Mac anarchy. At the beginning, you could not play iTunes songs on the Xbox 360. Now, its a total lockout. According to many people and this recent Neogaf forums post, the third generation, or 3G iPod Nano, and iPod touch along with the iPhone, apparently do not sync with the Xbox 360 and are unable to play the music stored on them. They are detected, but are otherwise useless. My question to the readers, is to confirm or deny this report. I have an original Nano and it works fine on the machine. It seems that only the new products are compatible and only the MS mp3 players will work. Anyone who has the new Apple stuff, let us know!
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