Apple's booming App Store tops 100,000 programsApple on Wednesday Wednesday: see week. announced that outside developers have crammed cram v. crammed, cram·ming, crams v.tr. 1. To force, press, or squeeze into an insufficient space; stuff. 2. To fill too tightly. 3. a. To gorge with food. the virtual shelves of its App Store with more than 100,000 mini-programs for iPhones and iPod Touch A flash-based iPod from Apple that was modeled after the iPhone. It is essentially a thinner iPhone without the phone capability and uses a touch screen for navigation rather than the illustrious click wheel. Like the iPhone, the only physical button displays the main menu. devices. "The App Store, now with over 100,000 applications available, is clearly a major differentiator for millions of iPhone and iPod touch customers around the world," said Apple senior vice president of worldwide product marketing Philip Philip, tetrarch of Ituraea Philip, d. A.D. 34, tetrarch of Ituraea, son of Herod the Great. He was perhaps the ablest of the Herod dynasty. He is mentioned in the Gospel of St. Luke. Schiller. More than two billion programs have been downloaded from the App Store since it was launched by California-based Apple in July of last year. Rival smartphone A cellular telephone with information access. It provides digital voice service as well as any combination of e-mail, text messaging, pager, Web access, voice recognition, still and/or video camera, MP3, TV or video player and organizer (see PDA). makers have rolled out their own versions of online stores where third-party developers  It has been suggested that First-party developer, Second-party developer be merged into this article or section. can give away or sell programs tailored to the software used in various Internet-linked mobile devices.
Apple boasts that the App Store remains the world's most popular applications shop, delivering games, business, news, sports, health, travel and reference programs to iPhone or iPod Touch users in 77 countries. "The App Store has forever changed the mobile gaming industry and continues to improve," said Travis Boatman, vice president of Worldwide Studios at the mobile unit of US videogame giant Electronic Arts. "With a global reach of over 50 million iPhone and iPod touch users, the App Store has allowed us to develop high quality EA games that have been a huge success with customers." Apple recently began allowing developers to build subscriptions or other purchase options into content into applications offered free of charge at the App Store. 
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