If you feel like you’re paying more to fill up this week, you aren’t imagining it. The conflict in the Middle East has officially hit the "Oil Phase," and the numbers coming off the ticker are starting to look like a crisis. Here is the breakdown of why gas prices are spiking and what the world is doing to stop the bleeding. 1. The $100 Barrier has Shattered For the first time in over three years, oil prices have officially surged past $100 per barrel . At the peak of the panic this week, Brent crude hit nearly $120 , driven by one simple fear: the total closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Because 20% of the world’s oil passes through that one narrow waterway, the moment Iran threatened it, the markets went into a tailspin. 2. Pain at the Pump: By the Numbers This isn't just a "Wall Street" problem; it's a "Main Street" problem. The U.S. Average: Nationwide gas prices have jumped roughly 27 cents in a single week , hitting an average of $3.58 per gal...
Apple's APP store according to IDC analysts is heading for a meltdown. This is according to their top 10 predictions. This is because the APP store has too much stock for any one person to navigate. From "Fart" games to applications that are just trivial.
The IDC predictions state "It will be a watershed year in the ascension of mobile devices as strategic platforms for commercial and enterprise developers as over 1 billion access the Internet, iPhone apps triple, Android apps quintuple, and Apple's "iPad" arrives."
Apples claim to receive at least 10,000 APP submissions per week. With an approximate 100 million apps downloaded each month from the app store. Boils down to the fact that whatever you may need or be interestd in there may be an app for that.
Every few months Apple brags about the number of iPhone apps accumulated in its App Store (most recently the count was 100,000), and most of the tech press has been hasty to deflate the hype.
How much of that really helps users or are they simply a waste of time for some. Even if you have all the time in world it's still not enough to work your way around through these myriads of apps.
But that may not be that important with it's large users base the APP store may have apps that suit your individual taste and that's what matters in the end. Every users want to have apps that are more personalized and with their humongous numbers there are enough apps to catch your fancy and interest.
The IDC predictions state "It will be a watershed year in the ascension of mobile devices as strategic platforms for commercial and enterprise developers as over 1 billion access the Internet, iPhone apps triple, Android apps quintuple, and Apple's "iPad" arrives."
Apples claim to receive at least 10,000 APP submissions per week. With an approximate 100 million apps downloaded each month from the app store. Boils down to the fact that whatever you may need or be interestd in there may be an app for that.
Every few months Apple brags about the number of iPhone apps accumulated in its App Store (most recently the count was 100,000), and most of the tech press has been hasty to deflate the hype.
How much of that really helps users or are they simply a waste of time for some. Even if you have all the time in world it's still not enough to work your way around through these myriads of apps.
But that may not be that important with it's large users base the APP store may have apps that suit your individual taste and that's what matters in the end. Every users want to have apps that are more personalized and with their humongous numbers there are enough apps to catch your fancy and interest.
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