Squeak Apps help push App Store over 50,000
8 June, 2009
Phil Schiller led the keynote presentation today at Apple’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference. One of the many causes for celebration he had was the phenomonal success of the iPhone App Store, which now has 50,000 applications available for download.
Although he was careful to be even-handed in giving credit to all iPhone developers for helping Apple achieve this success, he must have secretly been thanking John McIntosh, who is turning into a one-man app wave. Without John’s recent batch of new Squeak-based applications, Phil would have been left announcing the much less satisfactory figure of 49,99749,994 applications.
In case you missed it, John’s latest announcement was that his Fraction app is now available for calculations involving unlimited sized fractions and factorials, as it attempts to preserve numerical accuracy to an unprecedented degree. The new app joins the two apps based on his WikiServer that John already has on the App Store.
We look forward to seeing if the notoriously byzantine App Store approval process will be able to keep up with John’s flood of new applications.
The Weekly Squeak 
9 June, 2009 at 02:45
Actually there are *SIX* smalltalk apps on the store now.
9 June, 2009 at 09:15
Thanks for the update John. I’ve updated the figures.
9 June, 2009 at 11:06
In case anyone is wondering, searching the app store for “Corporate Smalltalk Consulting” will bring up the complete list 🙂