Quoted: Despite a weak battery and questions about how fast it connects to 3G networks, some time in the next week more than 6 million iPhone 3Gs will be in people’s hands around the world. What that means is that the second generation device has outsold the original iPhone just seven weeks after going on sale. They actually may already have done so. It took

Quoted: Many analysts expect Apple (AAPL) to sell around 11 million iPhone 3Gs in 2008 and another 25 million in 2009. But perhaps the most optimistic forecast is from Piper Jaffray (PJC) analyst Gene Munster, who expects the company to sell 13 million this year and 45 million next year.

Quoted: Facebook is planning to launch a new version of its iPhone application in September that will make the app more like the newly-redesigned web site. So, the deeper rationale for the web site redesign, perhaps, was to make it easier to replicate on mobile applications like this one.

An iPhone developer, TapTapTap, has published its sales numbers on TechCrunch. Interesting.

Quoted: WhereTo retails for $2.99 in the store and 24,094 copies were sold in the first month - netting the company just over $50,000 in revenue after Apple took their cut (it currently ranks #69 on the top paid application list). Tipulator retails for 99 cents, and sold 3,168 copies which resulted in just over $2,200 of revenue (it is currently unranked).

Quoted: Apple’s App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch launched exactly one month ago. In that time over 60 million applications have been downloaded, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs told The Wall Street Journal in an interview.
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Perhaps even more impressive is that even though most of the application available in the App Store are free, Apple is selling an average of $1 million a day worth of apps.

Quoted: My iPhone is quickly becoming a repository for applications that are being removed from Apple’s App Store. Today’s latest victim is PhoneSaber, the simple yet compelling app that uses the iPhone’s accelerometer to turn the device into a lightsaber. The problem in this case lies in that the lightsaber is the laser sword made famous by the Star Wars films.

Quoted: Rumors have been propagating through several popular Mac blogs that Apple will be releasing a red iPhone 3G model for the holiday season. The release will be well-timed, considering the initial iPhone hype will start to slow, and people will be opening up their wallets more for the holiday season. (Photo via MacBlogz) The red iPhone will presumably

Heh.

Quoted: New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni details his frustrating experience trying to find restaurants in New York using Urbanspoon's new restaurant locator application for the iPhone.
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Asked about the review, Urbanspoon founder Ethan Lowry says he is "pretty happy that (Bruni) spent half his weekend playing around with Urbanspoon."