I was very pleased to see this morning, when I looked at the featured apps area of the App Store on my iPhone that our latest app for Haynes Publishing was there! It is also on the App Store homepage within iTunes.

Let’s hope that will help the download figures, it will be interesting to see the affect.

iTunes Link

Within this post we are going to make publicly available the app download figures and iTunes chart numbers, in order to shed some light on these things. Hopefully others will find this of interest, as it is something we have found that is very hard to find out about. This is especially annoying when clients want to know potential download numbers within a particular category. Apple does not seem to make these publicly available, so the best we can do is guess.

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12th November 2009
10 Downloads | Number 447 UK Entertainment Charts
13th November 2009
10 Downloads | Number 231 UK Entertainment Charts
14th November 2009
12 Downloads | Number 205 UK Entertainment Charts (837 US)
15th November 2009
24 Downloads | Number 209 UK Entertainment Charts (762 US)
16th November 2009
9 Downloads | Number 202 UK Entertainment Charts (475 US)
17th November 2009
3 Downloads | Number 269 UK Entertainment Charts (495 US)
18th November 2009
9 Downloads | Number 274 UK Entertainment Charts (656 US)
19th November 2009
12 Downloads |
20th November 2009
9 Downloads |
21st November 2009
13 Downloads |
22nd November 2009
10 Downloads | Number 176 UK Entertainment Charts
25th November 2009
12 Downloads | Number 208 UK Entertainment Charts

Our Christmas app for the iPhone and iPod Touch has been approved by Apple and is available now: http://bit.ly/6r1UB
It is Version 2.0, an update from our Christmas app from last year. For users who downloaded last year, you can update to this feature packed version free of charge!
Loads more in this version, it is the only Christmas themed app you will need:

Features:
• Christmas Countdown

• Advent Calendar

• Christmas Jokes

• Christmas Music

• Toys

• Gift List

Orange UK has begun publicly responding to criticisms of its upcoming iPhone plans. At the center of complaints is the company’s unlimited data provision, attached to each iPhone subscription. In reality data use is restricted by a 750MB “fair usage” policy, in sharp contrast to other iPhone carriers, such as O2 UK and AT&T.

A member of Orange’s communications team, Conor Maples, insists that 750MB is far more than most iPhone users are likely to use. “We have had iPhone in other European countries for a while now & research shows the average user uses less than 200mb per month,” Maples claims via Twitter. “750MB is actually quite a lot of Mobile Data too – it’s about 5 hours of video downloaded from YouTube, 75,000 mobile web pages or 30,000 normal web pages….it’s 250 full music tracks (if an average a track is about 3mb) or 1500 mobile games.”

The carrier may eventually be pressured into raising limits, as it will have to compete with genuinely unlimited data at O2, and the forthcoming threat of Vodafone.

Maples has meanwhile attempted to quiet concerns that official terms and conditions could block apps such as Facebook and Spotify. “I can confirm that popular streaming services will not be banned for iPhone users,” he adds. Orange will begin selling the iPhone on November 10th.

Macnn.com

We have been working hard to revamp last year’s Christmas iPhone app that we made “24 Days”. Pretty much rebuilding the app from the ground up, we have added loads more features.

• Christmas Countdown

• Advent Calendar

• Christmas Jokes

• Christmas Music

• Toys

• Gift List

Watch this space for news – hopefully Apple will approve the update any day soon.

The Haynes App will be as intuitive and simple to use as the classic Haynes repair manual, featuring step-by-step guides with images and text, 30 easy-to-access automotive categories and an overview to learn the basics of how a car works and operates. It will also include videos so users can watch exactly how each task is completed by a Haynes engineer.

In addition there will be a ‘My Garage’ section to help with all those annoying tasks, including: service reminders, MOT, Insurance and tax renewal dates. The Haynes App will also include the ultimate ‘To Do List’, so the user can easily prioritise jobs. From weekly checks, to winter driving, the Haynes App will be full of comprehensive Haynes information and more topics will be added in the future.

Under the Agreement, Gourmet Pixel will work closely with Haynes to exploit various opportunities for the full range of Haynes content, both Gourmet Pixel and Haynes will be looking for significant sales on this evolving platform.

Iain Wakefield, Haynes Brand Licensing Manger said, “We were tremendously impressed by the approach and conceptual work from Gourmet Pixel and we are delighted to be working with them. Haynes is a very strong brand with unparalleled, authoritative content. We are excited at the prospect of Gourmet Pixel making Haynes available on the iPhone.”

The new app is available on iTunes and the AppStore now!