iPhone AppStore is product of the year

Tim Burrowes

December 19, 2008 9:54

The Apple iPhone’s AppStore has been named as the best digital lifestyle product of the year.

Marketers are only just getting to grips with the service, which has so far seen developers sell and give away more than 10,00 applications. One marketing success story has been the award-winning Carling iPhone pint (obviously it would have to be a schooner over here).

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Other items on the top ten digital lifestyle products included Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices, video service Hulu and the takeoff of the Netbook category.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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2 COMMENTS

Stan Lee 19 Dec 08

Hi Tim,

Any chance you could post the link to the product of the year list?

Pleeease.

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Tim Burrowes 19 Dec 08

My bad. Link is corrct in the post now.
And just for good measure, it’s here too:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/ar.....f_2008.php

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