A quick update from the land of Apple: The company announced on Monday another set of remarkable numbers for the app store for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Customers have downloaded more than two billion apps in the last year and a half, up from a billion in April and a billion and a half in July. Apple says there are now 85,000 apps available for the phone, up from 65,000 in July.
The blog Apple Insider further parses the numbers, calculating that an average of 6.3 million apps are downloaded a day, up from 4.1 million earlier in the year. The breadth and depth of Apple’s app store is a big reason why the iPhone continues to maintain its lead against up-and-comers like the Palm Pre and the phones running Google’s Android operating system.
Of course, there is one figure missing from the latest news out of Cupertino: How many of those apps are still being used after they’re downloaded? (We’re curious—what percentage of apps you’ve downloaded do you regularly use?)
“The rate of App Store downloads continues to accelerate with users downloading a staggering two billion apps in just over a year, including more than half a billion apps this quarter alone,” Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, said in a statement. “The App Store has reinvented what you can do with a mobile handheld device, and our users are clearly loving it.”
Source: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/apple-apps-store-crosses-another-threshold/?hpw
Our title ‘Space Destroyer’ will be a highly stylized arcade style iPhone/iPod Touch video game with seven levels, a variety of enemy space ships, bosses and cool upgrades for the hero ship.
Stay tuned: Screenshots coming soon!
Our new title ‘2012 Secrets’ is close to completion and will be released on the app store soon!
The developers are currently putting on the final touches on the game and then we will go into a short testing period.
We are also planing on releasing a demo version and will post an update before we do.
Stay tuned!
Our team of designers has done an amazing job at creating a set of highly stylized graphics for our upcoming 2012 Secrets title.
Stay tuned, we will soon release the first screenshots.
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The irockgames.com site has seen an incredible amount of new visitors ever since its release a few weeks ago.
The team at irockgames is working hard to complete 2012 Secrets within the next few weeks and cannot wait to show it to the public!
We are approaching the completion of our title “2012 Secrets” and are very excited about it…obviously!
“2012 Secrets” is a game that we are creating in collaboration with the world renowned author Lawrence E. Joseph who wrote the bestseller “Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into the End of Civilization”.
This game will feature 10 levels, each with a super stylized image of the upcoming apocalypse. In each level the gamer has to find a total of 20 objects that are well hidden inside the image. The goal is, under time pressure, to identify all of the objects; if time runs out, the level is reset and the game starts anew.
In between levels the gamer will learn interesting facts about the apocalypse that were provided by the author himself.
We soon will release the first screenshots!
It’s irockgames goal to release one game a month. And as of right now we are right on track. “2012 Secrets” will be released in July and “Space Destroyer” (working title) will follow in August.
Please come back check us out frequently and we will do our best to keep you posted.
Thank you for all your support!
the irockgames team
We cannot wait to release our title ‘Space Destroyer’ - a super cool, arcade style space ship shooter game!
The last several weeks of development have been a bit bumpy, but we are on schedule and cannot wait to bring it to your finger tips.
Soon we will release first screenshots, so stay tuned!
irockgames
We were just informed that our iPhone and iPod Touch game voro is good for your brain!
If you have ever had to pass an IQ test you probably noticed that it usually involves making sense of shapes and how they interact. Well, voro actually takes that even one step further and in brings in the element of color.
So, play voro, have fun and get smart! 
