According to 148apps, the US App Store has unofficially seen over 500,000 apps, including games, line its shelves since it debuted in June 2008. Only 400,000 or so remain live on the App Store today, for a variety of reasons, but that’s still an incredible number.

Let's get geeky and take a look at some numbers. From that nearly three years of data we know that you'd need a 7.5 terabyte iPhone to hold all of the apps available at once on your device. I guess we have a new high end target for the storage limit of the iPhone 5. Oh, and it would cost you $891,982.24 to buy all of the apps.

Check out their amazing, and amazingly big, infographic after the break!

[148apps]

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As part of Apple’s ongoing look-and-feel — aka copycat — lawsuit against Samsung, Judge Lucy Koh has ordered Samsung to cough up some of the unreleased, but allegedly infringing devices to Apple’s outside council for investigation.

“Although the Court expresses no opinion on the merits of Apple’s claims, the Court notes that Apple has produced images of Samsung products and other evidence that provide a reasonable basis for Apple’s belief that Samsung’s new products are designed to mimic Apple’s products.”

“In particular, the design and appearance of Samsung’s forthcoming products and packaging are directly relevant to Apple’s trademark, trade dress, and design claims. Because these claims are subject to consumer confusion and “ordinary observer” standards, the products themselves and the packaging in which they are sold are likely to be central to any motion for preliminary injunction,” the order reads.

The devices in question are Galaxy S2, Galaxy Tab 8.9, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Infuse 4G, and Droid Charge.

Our question — why couldn’t Apple just read Android Central like everyone else?

[Courthouse News]

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Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• iZar: An epic saga about a knight, a classical role-playing game with turn-based combat! [$2.99 - iTunes link]

• Math Pets!: An educational game environment designed to make learning essential math skills a fun, social, and immersive experience. [$3.99 - iTunes link]

• JamKit: Refine your drumming rhythm and coordination by playing great challenges made by players across the world. [Free, with in-app purhcases - iTunes link]

• Save To CloudDrive: Save data from your iPhone apps into Amazon’s Cloud Drive with as few taps as possible. [$1.99 - iTunes link]

• Today!: Get reminded of tasks you don’t have a due date for. [$0.99 - iTunes link]

Any other big apps or game releases or updates today? If you pick any of these up, let us know what you think!

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TiPb checks out the best, most must-have Facebook apps to load up on your iPad

Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerburg has famously said that “The iPad is not Mobile” and so Facebook has no plans to develop an official iPad app. Luckily there are plenty third party Facebook apps in the App Store. We’ve already given you our top 10 apps and games for iPad but this time we’re going more specific, and more social! So read on for TiPb’s Top 5 Facebook apps for your iPad!

(And hey, don’t forget to friend TiPb while you’re at it!)

MyPad+

MyPad+ is a great Facebook client that looks and feels like Twitter for iPad. If youre used to the official Twitter app, you will feel right at home. MyPad supports multiple logins, and implements Facebook, in a really sleek fashion. The app also includes completely native chat and a built-in browser for any of those external links.

[Free, $0.99 - iTunes]

Friended

Friended displays lots of data in its unique column view, including the live feed, your friend’s recent pictures and your recent friends. It has full native support for chat. Friended sports lots of popups as you navigate through the app, so you never lose the info in a background. You can view any external links within the app as well.

[Free, $0.99 - iTunes]

Friendly

Friendly for iPad offers lots of features that you'd expect in a facebook app, and then adds even more. The app has support for multiple logins if you share an iPad with anyone else. You can upload pictures to facebook and Friendly even offers 16 fun photo effects, like Black and White and Sepia. It also supports facebook’s "New Messages". Friendly is the only iPad app that allows you to edit profile details, through its built in browser. There’s also an option for push notifications for birthdays.

[Free, $0.99 - iTunes]

FacelyHD

FacelyHD is basic app with a large UI for easy navigation. Despite this, the app includes full support for chat, with saved history within the app, as well as facebook's 'New Messages'. FacelyHD also offers push notifications for messages, pokes, friend requests and chat, which you can turn off individually.

[$0.99 - iTunes]

Facebook.com

Although its not strictly an app, Facebook.com is a great free alternative way to view facebook on your iPad. There is no need for any additional downloads and it works just as it would on a Mac or PC, with the exception of chat functionality, and apps.

[Facebook.com]

Your favorite?

So there you have them, our top 5 best ways to Facebook on your iPad. Be sure to check out our Picks of the Week and iPad App and Games Forum for more recommendations, and if we missed any of your favorites leave them in the comments below!

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Opera Mini Web browser for Phone, and now iPad, has received a big update. In addition to support iPhone and iPad, Retina Display, and Facebook and Twitter, Opera Mini has received stability improvements and is much more pleasurable to use.

• Updated design with a fresh new look and feel
• Super smooth pinch-to-zoom and panning
• Support for iPhone 4 retina display, iPad, and iPad 2 devices
• Direct share on Facebook, Twitter, and My Opera
• Open new page in background tab
• Improved international font support for Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, and other non-latin languages

If you pick this one up, let us know what you think!

[Free - iTunes link]

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According to GigaOm, Apple has confirmed Steve Jobs will be giving the Keynote presentation at WWDC 2011, despite being on limited duty during his third medical leave. For the last 3 years, Apple has introduced new iPhone hardware (from the iPhone 3G to last year’s iPhone 4 at WWDC, however, unofficial word is that there’ll be no new iPhone until the fall this year. Since, also unlike previous years, there was no iOS preview event this spring, an iOS 5 announcement and probable beta release will likely be our high point. (There will no doubt also be Mac OS X Lion news as well.)

iOS 5 is rumored to be a big update for Apple, everything from a new leap to the cloud to a substantial re-write, so it’ll be great to see Steve Jobs doing what he does better than anyone else in the industry — running the show.

What do you want to see?

Note: We can’t find the official announcement they refer to… yet. Make of that what you will.

UPDATE: GigaOM seems to have the date wrong as well, June 7th was the 2010 keynote. [@BenjaminZEMayo] Could be a misfire on their part. Still looking into it.

UPDATE 2: GigaOm misfired. Apple hasn’t yet announced the Keynote speaker for WWDC 2011. Likely a miscommunication based on last year’s WWDC announcement. [The Loop]

[GigaOm]

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Hot on the heels of the obligatory iPhone 5 case leak, we now have a supposed picture of the back panel of the next iPhone with the same LED Flash placement on the opposite corner. The image is obviously unverified but it does match up with both the recent case leak and some supposed next generation camera parts. Two holes are clearly visible, one for the camera on the left and one for the flash on the right.

This of course could well be a Photoshop job based on the recent case pictures however it is not unusual for these types of images to leak out. What do you think, real, fake, or really fake?

[Apple.Pro via MacRumors]

 

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The head of France Telecom (which is the parent company of iPhone carrier Orange), Stéphane Richard, talking in San Francisco last week, confirmed that Apple would introduce an even smaller SIM card in the future. He also went on to confirm that Apple did want to introduce a device without the need for a SIM card at all.

As you probably know, Apple has been working for years on reducing the size of SIM cards because they need space in the phone. They even thought about a device without any SIM card, that is what is known as the e-SIM project. All of us told them it was a bad idea because the SIM card is a critical piece of the security and authentication process. It would be very difficult for a telco or carrier to manage the customer relationship. We are going to work with them in order to standardize a new format of SIM which takes into accout our needs with security and authentication and also is compatible with their wishes in terms of size.

The only obvious reason for the change in SIM card size is saving space in a future iPhone. Mr Richard believes this to be the case too.

I understood that the next iPhone would be smaller and thinner and they are definitely seeking some space.

We don't know for sure at this point if he has any direct knowledge of Apple’s plans or is just making assumptions, and if he is referring to the next iPhone or a model for 2012, or the mythical iPhone nano. Either way it looks increasingly likely that we will have to deal with another SIM card standard. Those of us that like to change SIM cards and swap phones are going to have more headaches to deal with.

What do you think, is the space saving worth it, and how much smaller can they go?

[All Things D]

 

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You know who they are — the person you kinda sorta know, acquaintance of an acquaintance type of thing — and they keep inviting you to events in other countries, adding you to groups you couldn’t care any less about, and spamming your wall with their virus links, and you’re just dying to know how to unfriend them.

Well, rest easy. It’s not rude. It’s not anti-social. It’s not you — it’s them. They’re unfriendable. And it’s Facebook, with their “invite all”, “add to group”, and other easy-to-abuse buttons. You’re not breaking any covenants that ought not be broken. You’re simply restoring your Facebook sanity. And we’re going to help you… after the break.

Luckily you can unfriend just such a person using the Facebook for iPhone app, or on the web. Since we’re an iPhone blog, we’ll stick with the iPhone app for now.

1. Launch Facebook for iPhone
2. Tap on Friends
3. Scroll down to find the person in need of an unfriending
4. Tap on their name
5. Tap on the action button at the top right
6. Tap the red Unfriend button
7. Tap to confirm the unfriending

That’s it! The guilty party has been right and properly unfriended and you can go on with a cleaner, less stressful Facebook experience. (Or at least as much as is possible.)

Have any other Facebook tips for us? Drop them in the comments!

Note: No Seth Cliffords were actually unfriended during the making of this tip.

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