Ever since the iphone application store has been opened , it has seen tremendous response from the developer community. There had been so many success stories and failure stories..who wants to read a failure story.

But with 55000+ applications in iPhone store , there is a limit to revenues an application can generate. And that too when most applications are free. Read this post by a developer who had launched his application successfully but had to pull out because of lack of revenues.  I liked his reflections on failures and perhaps a lesson for all of us to learn

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In today’ s time of recession and all the gloom.. There is some good news for Apple .  In just three days (Friday to Sunday) Apple reported that it has sold over one million iPhone 3G’s. This number exceeded most of the analyst’s expectation and the iPhone 3G sold more than Palm Pre on its opening weekend.

Another feather to Apple’s cap was that there were over six million downloads of their iPhone OS 3.0 software since its release which is a huge number of people running the new OS in under a week.Though Steve Jobs isnt back to work yet he did make a comment that ” Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning,”. Well i would like to say Kudos to Apple .. So go ahead either grab the IPhone 3G or go ahead and download the new OS, it definately  has some really good features (which i talked about in my previous article)..

Just a few days back Apple released its iPhone OS 3.0 which has some really cool features. This would be an upgrade to all iPhone and iPod touch users.  This Operating System would be available on an international basis and is provided free of charge to all iPhone users. The iPod touch users need to pay $9.95 for the upgrade.

The iPhone 3.0 is a major update and has many long requested features like the  cut, copy and paste, push notifications, MMS and modem tethering and landscape keyboard.

Some of the other good improvements is the support for YouTube accounts, iTunes Store account creation on the device,  direct song, movie, TV show and audiobook purchases via WiFi and these are just some of them.

Some of the other features are the spotlight search which enable to search all of your contacts, emails, calendars and everything in your iPod. The shake to shuffle feature, where all you do is give the iPhone a shake and it shuffles to a different song in your music library.

It also allows you to automatically connect to the WiFi network. There are also some features , like stereo Bluetooth or MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) that lets you send images, audio, video and locations to other cellphone users, are not possible on the first-generation iPhone and iPod touch devices due to hardware constraints.

The U.S users should be aware that updating their devices wont yet allow them to enjoy MMS and modem tethering until AT&T enables these capabilities on its cellular network

A good news for International users is that iPhone OS 3.0 is in 34 languages and supports 40 keyboard layouts. These long awaited features will definitely bring a lot of smiles to the Apple users. To update your device just log on to iTunes 8 and then click on “Check for Update”and then download and install the update.

Go ahead, upgrade and enjoy these features…