The latest research from Gartner indicates that, for the year 2009, only 16 million app sales were executed on mobile devices not bearing the infamous bitten apple logo. In reporting this data, Ars Technica inadvertently conflates Apple’s latest announcement of three billion apps downloaded with the notion of three billion apps sold and pegs the App Store’s market share at a whopping 99.4 percent — but more realistic calculations still show it to be somewhere in the vicinity of 97.5 percent. Going off estimates (obtained by GigaOM) that a quarter of App Store downloads are paid-for apps, and taking a rough figure of 2.5 billion downloads in 2009, leaves us with around 625 million app sales performed by Apple, which Read the full story

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We may never know exactly why AT&T suspended online sales of the iPhone to residents of New York last night, but it doesn’t matter anymore — the site’s been updated and online sales are back… online. In other news, previously spiking sales of pants in the New York area have suddenly flatlined.

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So we know the iPhone has been slumming it and selling itself on Walmart shelves in the US for a while now, but it’s retained a somewhat more dignified cachet over here in Europe. Until today, that is. Just “in time for Christmas,” British retailer Tesco will make it possible for you to buy your socks, no-frills groceries, and shiny smartphone all in the same place. You’ll still be riding O2’s network, thanks to the Tesco Mobile service, but the department store chain is likely to price its Read the full story

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Go figure, right? You get a relatively hot phone out onto more carriers, and just like that, sales increase. It ain’t rocket science, buster. As AT&T grins happily while enjoying a death grip on Apple’s cash cow here in the States, things are a lot more wide open for consumers across the pond. In both France and theUK, the iPhone has been given the all-clear to be sold on multiple carriers, and according to research from Bernstein, the “widening of the distribution has boosted Apple’s value Read the full story

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AT&T is telling customers that anyiPhone 3GS pre-orders placed after today, June 13th, will not be available at the June 19th launch, instead shipping out between one and two weeks later. Read the full story

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According to information gathered by mobile research group Pinch Media, the average free app downloaded from the App Store has a less than 5% chance of being used for greater than 30 days after it was first downloaded. The group collected information from more than 30 million app downloads that they tracked as part of their analytics services they provide to developers, and the trends they found were pretty surprising.

Their data indicates that most of the free apps users download don’t hold their interest for very long, meaning either most free apps are crap or iPhone users have incredibly short attention spans.

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