The post reads “The iTunes App Store is about to reach 10 billion downloads. That makes this a good time to revisit app growth metrics and compare them with the other digital media store that we have data for: the iTunes Music Store. It further adds “The amazing story of this chart is not that apps are running at above 30 million download per day, but that the figure is growing. Growth like this is hard to get one’s mind around. Not only are downloads increasing, but the rate of increase is increasing.”

In the end, the post draws three conclusions:

1. App downloads are overtaking digital music in a big way and have emerged as a new medium.
2. With number of apps downloaded on a single device increases, there will be higher switching costs for users.
3. Apps usage is growing at a faster rate to surpass the PC software market.

However, much of the information provided on the post may be subjective, considering that Apple doesn’t make its device sales figures public. But the report does indicate a trend that iPhone app downloads are fast overtaking music downloads.

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• Submit Your App by March 27.
• Build and test your iPad app using iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 5 available on the iPhone Dev Center. Only iPad apps built with iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 5 will be accepted for this initial review.
• Upload your distribution signed app through iTunes Connect by Saturday, March 27, 5pm PDT.
• The App Review Team will review your app on iPad and email you details about the readiness of your app.
• You will also receive additional information about submitting your app for final review before iPad ships.
• Only apps submitted for the initial review will be considered for the grand opening of the iPad App Store.

You can find the apple email below:

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Apple has mentioned that this is in response to the success of their iPhone Developer Program , also priced at $99 and this would create potential for iPhone developers to port over their applications to the Mac platform.

While the newly named Mac Developer Program covers most of the essential elements required for developing an app for Mac, it is definitely a much slimmer package than its predecessors. The $99 Mac Developer Program would offer access to Mac OS X pre-releases, technical documentation, Xcode 3 and other tools, development videos, member-only developer forums, and two technical code-level support incidents. Additional support incidents can be purchased in bundles of two for $99 or five for $249.

This program no longer includes significant hardware discounts, 10 support incidents and WWDC material and ticket worth $1200.

Apple has made it further easy for students and indie Mac developers by offering a free version of the Mac Developer Program that gives access to Xcode 3 and other tools, online resources, and bug reporting. For first timers and amateurs who just want to explore the Mac development platform, this is an ideal option.

With this new change in place, it would not be surprising to see a new wave of Mac application development and more so when there are tons of iPhone apps that are already available and can be ported over easily to the Mac platform.

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There was a case where what ever I did, did not work. Many attempts to install using iTunes after trying to change certificates, provisioning profiles have failed. Even the “iPhone Configuration Utility” failed to install the app. I had actually lost all hopes getting it installed on this device. But after a little prayer and just a little hope left, it just worked.

Why did it work? I do not have any answer. Can’t still figure it out. And that was the first time I tried installing an Adhoc build on a device for a Windows user!! Is it really so hard?

Could not install application on device: Error: A signed resource has been added, modified or deleted.

The image that you see here, is another failed attempt at installing an Adhoc build for a Windows user. But this got resolved real quick.

The reason: Mac allows file names to contain some special characters (like ‘*’) which are not valid on a Windows PC. This is one thing you can check if you come across errors of above kind. But not all of them will be the same as above.

If any one else has faced a similar problem and found a definitive solution, let us know here.

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